Tala-Tonalá Style Jalisco Sculpture of a Seated Woman, 300 BCE - 300 CE
Terra Cotta
8.5
PF.0726
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This well dressed woman raises her hand to her face as if she has just thought of something she forgot. She wears a skirt in an attractive dotted pattern, a...
This well dressed woman raises her hand to her face as if she has just thought of something she forgot. She wears a skirt in an attractive dotted pattern, a chic hat, nice jewels.
White pigment(perhaps with some ritual significance) covers her hands and feet like gloves and shoes.She is,in fact,a lady as one might see dinning out in a fashionable cafe,except that she is naked from the waist up. Perhaps that is what she forgot, here in the 20th century where we require such things.
White pigment(perhaps with some ritual significance) covers her hands and feet like gloves and shoes.She is,in fact,a lady as one might see dinning out in a fashionable cafe,except that she is naked from the waist up. Perhaps that is what she forgot, here in the 20th century where we require such things.
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