Wonderful Pre-Columbian Nayarit Chinesco "Type C" Female Figure, 200 B.C-300 A.D antique transferware plate Really great and surely fodder

Really great and surely fodder for all sorts of creative applications

not actively chipping off

though pouring a bit of sand inside would help stabilize it

but I personally love the fact that they are now entirely archaic unless one happens to have a 19th c

9" tall x 2 7/8" wide

Wonderful Pre-Columbian Nayarit Chinesco "Type C" Female Figure, 200 B.C-300 A.D antique transferware plate Really great and surely fodderOn 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