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Ca. 200 BC – 200 AD
Description: Hollow pottery matching pair of male and female seated figures. The male plays a zoomorphic rasp and wears a wide banded headdress with side tuffs, and crescent form nose ring. The female holds a bowl in her right hand and wears a single band headdress, knee length skirt, nose ring and ear ornaments. Both with a red-brown ground, black resist geometric decoration and painted white and ocher highlights. Strong mineral deposits and root marks on the surface which is stone polished and has manganese and dendrite deposits. Legally purchased from a private collection.
Condition: Male’s head and legs reattached, a few restored hairlines on his back the female is intact, exc. cond.
Dimension: 10” & 10-1/4”H.
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