A Nayarit large standing warrior figure

A Nayarit large standing warrior figure

Mexico, circa 100 BC - 250 AD

pottery, wearing a pointed headdress, earrings, nose rings and armbands, with bared teeth, holding a dagger and a small square shield and with a mace like object on his abdomen, with a red slip and back and white pigment decoration, white painted collection number 1162,

68cm high.

Provenance

Stanley J. Seegar Collection.

Sotheby's, London, 1000 Ways of Seeing: The Private Collection of The Late Stanley J. Seeger, 5 March 2014, lot 453.

ArtAncient Ltd, London, 1 Feb 2016.

Romy Rey Collection, London.

Exhibited

Kelleher, P.J. The Stanley J. Seeger Jr. Collection, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1961, no. 159.