PRE-COLUMBIAN WEST MEXICO BENT-LEGGED SEATED MALE. Start Price USD 299.00 Current Price USD 304.05 Time Left - Bid Count 3 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Saturday, September 06, 2008 End Time Saturday, September 13, 2008 Location El Paso TX See more about 'PRE-COLUMBIAN WEST MEXICO BENT-LEGGED SEATED MALE.' Description EXCEPTIONALLY PRE-COLUMBIAN WEST MEXICO TERRACOTTA BENT-LEGGED SEATED MALE. From West Mexico Culture, probably Terminal Preclassic Period, ca. 200 B.C.- A.D. 350. Found in Jalisco, Mexico. The fine quality of modelling reveals the artist's ability to convey the vitality of living forms through simple shapes. Depicting an old hollow male with bent back, seated with a drawn-up knee and his right hand resting on his knee. The other leg is bent and lies flat on the ground. He touches his toothless mouth with the left hand. Fingers are clearly worked-out, right hand is smaller than the other one. His torso carefully modelled, with sunken chest and thick belly. The male figure is nude, he is bald-headed with an opening on top of the head and vent-hole in the deformed mouth. The face shows more detail with sculptured coffee-bean eyes coloured in white, full cheeks, realistically earlobes, painted three black lines above each eye and a triangle below of them. Note the typical three ringed nose clip on is big hooked nose. His body decoration either a reference to body paint or tattooing consists of white undulating lines on his back, white lines, dots and spiral on his chest and belly. He is wearing white appliqued multiple armbands and earrings. Around his left leg has a white painted legarm and along his right leg has a raised ornament. Museum quality, no repairs, cracks or chips, coloured in polished red, black and white, with earth and manganese dioxide deposits. Size: tall 5 3/4" and wide 4". It is an authentic piece. Place a Bid!