*Idole anthropomorphe Lot n° 30

presenting a character with powerful and rounded forms, the hands placed on the belly in a nourishing gesture and the face with a slightly wrathful expression. Speckled, carved and polished serpentine Mezcala type M22, State of Guerrero, Mexico 400-100 B.C. 15.2 x 9.3 x 5.8 cm Provenance: former Stéphane Janssen collection (1936-2020) since 1966 Bibliography: Mezcala, Carlo Gay, Francis Pratt, éditions Balsas, Geneva, 1992, p. 24, fig. 7, for an idol of this type.