Wonderful Pre-Columbian Nayarit Chinesco "Type C" Female Figure, 200 B.C-300 A.D barnacles It is a bit ironic

It is a bit ironic that someone more recently decided a couple of pieces of clear tape on the flowers side was an appropriate way to add reinforcement after looking at that stitching

and to me eye a pretty great looking thing

which appear native to it

so while akin to Staffordshire child's mugs of the early 19th c

and I love how the artist so carefully positioned the apples such that all of the stems would point exactly the same way

Wonderful Pre-Columbian Nayarit Chinesco "Type C" Female Figure, 200 B.C-300 A.D barnacles It is a bit ironicOn a week filled with a lot of wonderful, very singular faces and postures, this may be my favorite of all traveling across centuries to stare right into my soul! This clay figure is pre Columbian, I am quite sure from the Nayarit culture that developed in Western Mexico during the "proto classic" period, and which I am also quite sure is of the type described commonly as "Chinesco" (the term was inspired by the unintended similarity of the faces on