Choice San Jerónimo Standing Female Figure
Choice San Jerónimo Standing Female Figure
Choice San Jerónimo Standing Female Figure
Choice San Jerónimo Standing Female Figure
Choice San Jerónimo Standing Female Figure
Choice San Jerónimo Standing Female Figure
Choice San Jerónimo Standing Female Figure
Choice San Jerónimo Standing Female Figure
Choice San Jerónimo Standing Female Figure
Choice San Jerónimo Standing Female Figure
Choice San Jerónimo Standing Female Figure
Choice San Jerónimo Standing Female Figure
Choice San Jerónimo Standing Female Figure
Choice San Jerónimo Standing Female Figure Choice San Jerónimo Standing Female Figure Choice San Jerónimo Standing Female Figure Choice San Jerónimo Standing Female Figure Choice San Jerónimo Standing Female Figure Choice San Jerónimo Standing Female Figure

Choice San Jerónimo Standing Female Figure

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Guerrero, Late Preclassic (Formative) Period, ca. 500–200 BCE

A finely modeled solid-pottery standing female of the San Jerónimo type, named after the type-site region around modern San Jerónimo, Guerrero, in West Mexico. The figure is frontally posed with a large rectangular plaque-like head surmounted by an elaborate fillet/turban headdress rising to a vertical fan-shaped crest flanked by two coiled, horizontally banded rolls above the temples. Almond-shaped, perforated "coffee-bean" eyes flank a prominent nose, and the open mouth reveals modeled teeth; applied disc ear-spools frame the face. Arms are flexed with hands placed to the abdomen — the characteristic San Jerónimo maternal/fertility gesture — while openwork piercings at the torso and between the short, columnar legs lighten the solid clay body. A finely incised zigzag pattern decorates the skirt, and the figure retains overall remains of its original slip-painted decoration.
Size 6-1/4 inches (15.8cm) H. + custom mount
San Jerónimo terracottas belong to the Late Preclassic village cultures of Guerrero, contemporary with and stylistically independent of Olmec and early Central Highland traditions. 

Provenance
The Lands Beyond Gallery, 1280 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY (acquired 1990s); private East Coast collection, thence by descent. The Lands Beyond is a long-established Manhattan gallery specializing exclusively in Pre-Columbian art

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