A Veracruz seated female figure

A Veracruz seated female figure

Mexico, circa 500 -700 AD

pottery, wearing an ornate headdress and ear plugs, with applied bead pupils and an open mouth, wearing a torque and ribbon tied bells to the arms, and an long skirt, with traces of bitumen to the headdress and red to the back of the skirt,

39.5cm high.

Provenance

Woolley and Wallis, Salisbury, Tribal Art, 11 February 2014, lot 541.

Romy Rey Collection, London.