Veracruz Standing Sonriente Figure

Hollow molded buff-brown pottery standing sonriente figure having outstretched arms. Wearing a necklace with with bell pendant, loincloth with front flap. Depicted with ceremonial filed front teeth. Scattered mineral deposits on the surface. Left leg and arm repaired and reattached with areas of restoration, left side of crown repaired and partially restored, nose restored, head and right hand reattached with restoration over the breaklines.

Collection of Alyce and Jerry Tuttman, Asbury Park, NJ. Acquired 1950s-1960s. To son by inheritance.

Ca. 600-900 A.D.

11-7/8”H.