NAYARIT SEATED COUPLE
$9,000.00
San Sebastian Style, Protoclassic
Circa 100 B.C. - A.D. 250
Height 19” and 23 5/8”
Provenance: Primus-Stuart Gallery, Los Angeles, 1963 or earlier
Private Collection, California
Each seated on two-legged stools, the male figure with his hands resting on each knee, the female with her hands to her chest; each wearing multiple-hooped earrings, knee bands and with elegant striated coiffures that extend down their backs; manganese oxide deposits throughout the smooth, reddish-brown surface with burnishes; inventory numbers written in black on the undersides: "PAIR/#A118/E.P.23K" and "#A117/PAIR W/118/23K."