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Jalisco Art : Jalisco Terracotta Sculpture of a Kneeling Woman
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Jalisco Terracotta Sculpture of a Kneeling Woman - PF.2025
Origin: Western Mexico
Circa: 300
BC
to 300
AD
Dimensions:
6.5" (16.5cm) high
Collection: Pre-Columbian
Style: Jalisco
Medium: Terracotta
£4,000.00
Location: UAE
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The gesture this woman makes--placing her
hand behind her neck--is a traditional mark of
mourning in the Pre-Columbian world. She was
no doubt left as a grave offering to express some
woman's eternal sorrow. Yet along with her
attitude of sadness, she offers the promise of
renewal and rebirth, the suggestion of fertile life
to come. We are reminded that human existence
moves in cycles, an endless pattern of birth and
death. No matter what else changes in
civilization, these things remain constant.
- (PF.2025)
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