Venus with a feline expression, accentuated by... Lot 69

Venus with a feline expression, accentuated by the finely drawn lips whose outline symbolically evokes the lips of a jaguar. She wears on her head a headband tied at the top of her forehead with three ornaments pointing to the sky. Terracotta Broken glued in three places: the neck, one leg, and the lower abdomen, small chip visible on the edge of the upper lip, no restoration, good general state of conservation. Olmec, Las Bocas, Puebla State, Mexico. Middle pre-classical period, 1200 - 400 BC. 15.5 x 7.5 cm. Provenance: Collection Jean & Manichak Aurance. Acquired from Pierre Langlois, Paris, November 1962. Publication: Ragon Michel (dir.), Univers des arts, Editions Félix Touron, Paris 1965, Les Encyclopédies, reproduced p. 306. Bibliography: The Jaguar's children, pre-classic cetral Mexico, Michael D. Coe, Museum of Primitive Art of New York 1965, page 119, fig 202, for a work very close to the old Everett Rassiga New York collection.