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Michoacan Sculpture of a Standing Woman - PF.0372
Origin: Michoacan, Mexico
Circa: 300
BC
to 300
AD
Dimensions:
7.5" (19.1cm) high
x 5" (12.7cm) wide
Collection: Pre-Columbian
Medium: Terracotta
$3,000.00
Location: United States
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Though her bold symmetry only makes a
minimal concession to realism, this abstract
woman glows with the energy of human life. Bare
breasted, wearing jewelry, she was left long ago
as a votive gift. Almost certainly, she represents
the person who offered her before the Gods, a
woman of ancient Mexico. Perhaps this is the
only clue remaining to that forgotten human life,
the embodiment of hopes and reams not so very
different from those we might feel today. Just
beneath the surface of the clay, we sense the
heartbeat of a vanished world.
- (PF.0372)
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