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Chinesco Female Figure
earthenware, slip paint
c. 300 BCE to 200 CE
Nayarit culture
Mexico

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July 11, 2026 at 4:41 PM
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Tripod Plate with Mythical Bird
earthenware with slip paint
c. 600-750 CE
Maya culture
Campeche, Mexico

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May 29, 2026 at 3:50 PM
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Laughing Woman
earthenware, slip paint
c. 100 BCE to 250 CE
Ixtlán del Río style Protoclassic period
Nayarit culture
Western Mexico

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August 1, 2026 at 12:42 PM
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March 29, 2026 at 3:18 PM
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Seated Couple
earthenware, slip paint
c. 100 BCE - 250 CE
Zacatecas culture
Western Mexico

The male is wearing his 'mushroom' hairstyle.

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Zacatecas Seated Couple, Protoclassic, circa 100 BC - AD 250 Height: 15 ¾ in (40 cm); 14 ½ in (36.8 cm) Zacatecas couples have been called “[...] one of the most celebrated styles of West Mexican sculpture.” (Kristi Butterwick, Heritage of Power: Ancient Sculpture from West Mexico, The Andrall E. Pearson Family Collection, New York, 2004, p. 56), deemed as such for their extreme stylization, lively demeanor, and sensuous burnished surfaces of deep coloration. The Lazar couple bears the characteristic features of ancestral pairs, with identical facial styles, evident in the highly sculpted rimmed mouths, eyes and slender noses, and the matching jewelry. The ear plugs and last string of the multiple necklaces each have delicate stiff tassels, perhaps shells. The slender arms loop widely to the side and are adorned with armbands. The male figure’s coiffure is wrapped around upright supports of “mushroom” style, and each figure’s body is painted with resist designs. See Butterwick, op. cit., p. 57, cat. no. 14, for the type.
August 6, 2026 at 5:34 PM
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Female Figure
earthenware, slip paint
c. 300 BCE - 100 CE
Chupicuaro culture
Mexico

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Female Figure earthenware, slip paint c. 300 BCE - 100 CE Chupicuaro culture Mexico The distinctive Chupícuaro style was first identified at the urban center of the same name located in southern Guanajuato. The site was covered by a reservoir in 1948 to supply water for Mexico City. During salvage and later excavations in the region, pottery vessels and figures in the Chupícuaro style were found at sites along the Lerma River and southward in the vicinity of Lake Cuitzeo in Michoacán. The Chupícuaro region had longstanding cultural and trade connections with the Valley of Mexico beginning as early as 200 BCE, indicated by similarities in ceramic figural art traditions from both regions. In addition, artistic similarities are found in objects from Jalisco, Nayarit, and Colima, strongly intimating a strategic role for Chupícuaro as a pointof- transfer and unifying power linking Central and West Mexican peoples for many centuries. Burials of members of the Chupícuaro elite typically included a large number of female figures that conceptually link death with fertility as a central precept of the Mesoamerican ideology of death, transformation, and regeneration. Larger sculptures are hollow, but the majority are solid, modeled figures. Typically, the figures' basic features are defined by modeling; the ornately woven clothing and the striking body painting, a hallmark of Chupícuaro figures, are depicted in paint. On this example, the stepped design creates larger diamond-shaped and x-patterned motifs across the woman's body. It is likely these patterns carry symbolic significance. The figure's short pants (or possibly body painting) feature a combined vertical and horizontal patterning that suggests a highly developed weaving tradition, which sadly has not survived.
August 3, 2026 at 5:13 PM