Originally offered at $700...

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, Protoclassic Period, ca. 100 BCE to 250 CE. A hollow-built pottery figural vessel that exhibits lustrous, highly burnished surfaces covered with attractive red-orange slip. The male warrior sits with a rigid posture upon a planar bottom with bent legs extended in front of a tall abdomen. His left arm is bent in front of his body with a clenched fist while he holds a triangular celt in his right hand. The enlarged head features a pair of coffee-bean-shaped eyes flanking a slender nose, perky ears, a smooth brow, and pursed lips just above a protruding chin strap that leads up to a peaked helmet. Atop the helmet is a slanted spout that leads to the interior cavity of the vessel. Size: 5.3" W x 7.5" H (13.5 cm x 19 cm)

Provenance: private Healy collection, Studio City, California, USA, acquired 1995 to 2015

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#166547

Professional repair and restoration to much of head, with nearly invisible resurfacing and overpainting along new material and break lines. Minor abrasions and encrustations to body, with light fading to scattered areas of original pigment. Nice retention of figural form.