A Veracruz "Smiler" (Sonrientes), El Tajin Style, with hands held high at both sides, wearing a necklace, a wristband with hanging regalia, and a headdress with carved symbols. Unslipped buff surface.
$1500Veracruz, Gulf Coast, Mexico, Late Classic, circa A.D. 550-950.
H 12.8IN
H 32.512CM
1) Ex-Sidney Newman Collection of Pre-Columbian Art, Beverly Hills, California. Co-author of The Shaft Tomb Figures of West Mexico, with Hasso von Winning, Southwest Museum, Los Angeles, 1974. 2) The Brisacher Family Collection of Pre-Columbian Art, Costa Mesa, California.
Good, for an ancient clay sculpture.