Wonderful Pre-Columbian Nayarit Chinesco "Type C" Female Figure, 200 B.C-300 A.D antique transferware plate 5 1/4" t x 4

5 1/4" t x 4 5/16" d

1960s or 70s I believe

not actively chipping off

but will rest just where it should for display

Wonderful Pre-Columbian Nayarit Chinesco "Type C" Female Figure, 200 B.C-300 A.D antique transferware plate 5 1/4" t x 4On a week filled with a lot of wonderful, very singular faces and postures, this may be my favorite of all traveling across centuries to stare right into my soul! This clay figure is pre Columbian, I am quite sure from the Nayarit culture that developed in Western Mexico during the "proto classic" period, and which I am also quite sure is of the type described commonly as "Chinesco" (the term was inspired by the unintended similarity of the faces on