Mexico, Jalisco
200 BC–300 AD
Ceramic with painted decoration
Height: 9⅞ in (25.1 cm)
Provenance: Riverside Gallery, Houston, Texas, 1980s; Dr. Rick Heideman, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Figures holding bowls or offering vessels are a recognized type within the Jalisco ceramic tradition of West Mexico, interpreted as representations of individuals engaged in ritual service or ceremonial presentation. The bowl-holding pose is associated across several West Mexican traditions with funerary offering and ancestor veneration, and figures of this type were placed in shaft tombs as companions or ritual attendants for the deceased. The combination of elaborate painted surface decoration and expressive facial modeling places this example within the higher end of Jalisco figurine production.
This figure displays an animated upward gaze, large circular ear ornaments, a beaded necklace, and a headdress, with white dot painted decoration preserved across the face, torso, and ornaments in a pattern consistent with intact Jalisco polychrome treatment. The bowl is held at the waist with both hands in the standard offering posture. The painted decoration is well preserved, and the two-owner Texas and New Mexico provenance traces the piece to the 1980s American market for West Mexican material.
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Mexico, Jalisco
200 BC–300 AD
Ceramic with painted decoration
Height: 9⅞ in (25.1 cm)
Provenance: Riverside Gallery, Houston, Texas, 1980s; Dr. Rick Heideman, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Figures holding bowls or offering vessels are a recognized type within the Jalisco ceramic tradition of West Mexico, interpreted as representations of individuals engaged in ritual service or ceremonial presentation. The bowl-holding pose is associated across several West Mexican traditions with funerary offering and ancestor veneration, and figures of this type were placed in shaft tombs as companions or ritual attendants for the deceased. The combination of elaborate painted surface decoration and expressive facial modeling places this example within the higher end of Jalisco figurine production.
This figure displays an animated upward gaze, large circular ear ornaments, a beaded necklace, and a headdress, with white dot painted decoration preserved across the face, torso, and ornaments in a pattern consistent with intact Jalisco polychrome treatment. The bowl is held at the waist with both hands in the standard offering posture. The painted decoration is well preserved, and the two-owner Texas and New Mexico provenance traces the piece to the 1980s American market for West Mexican material.
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