Description: A Nayarit burnished red-slipped seated naked male figure on a tripod dais, both hands holding the right leg below the knee and the body of flattened form. Broken at the neck with the head lost, some chips to the edge of the dais and extensive blotchy managanese deposits, otherwise condition good, West Mexico Shaft Tomb Culture.
Size: 98 mm/3.9 ins. high and 114 mm/4.5 ins. across the shoulders
Culture: Mexico
Date: c. 100 B.C. – 300 A.D.
Provenance: Ex Yorkshire Private Collection.
If this was complete with head we would expect to list it at around £600.
