*Rare idole anthropomorphe
presenting a standing character with his hands resting on the edge of his sex marked in relief. The forehead is decorated with a diadem in projection, symbolizing the head of a stylized feline, a sacred animal for this people. This frontal ornament can be interpreted as a sign of shamanic prescience.
Carved and polished speckled green diorite, traces of cinnabar.
Mezcala, type M20 (variant), Guerrero region, Mexico, 400-100 B.C.
23 x 6.5 x 5.5 cm
This work is distinguished by its figurative and abstract artistic quality, the nobility of the stone and its alternative typology in the classification of Carlo gay. Genitals are rarely represented on Mezcala idols.
Provenance : former collection Yvon Collet, 1967
