Large (17 5/8 inches) Authentic Nayarit, ca. 100 BCE to 250 CE Pre-Columbian Barrel Seated Warrior w/ Certificate Authenticity & Provenance

Large (17 5/8 inches) Authentic Pre-Columbian Nayarit Culture statue dating from Protoclassic Period, ca. 100 BCE to 250 CE. Exquisitely made and highly burnished terracotta figure of Barrel Carassis Seated Warrior. Fashioned in a stylized manor seated on a stool and holding a club, wearing painted textile armor, earrings, and horned helmet. Exquisite hand-built and highly-burnished pottery warrior of a sizable form seated upon bent legs and a pair of elongated cones protruding from the posterior. The man wears a large barrel-shaped suit of armor around his broad chest and above delineated genitalia, has a recessed collar which exposes his shoulders, and holds an enormous mace in his arms. The head boasts a stylized visage composed large almond-shaped eyes, a relatively naturalistic nose with delineated nostrils, a wide open mouth and ears adorned by multiple earrings, all beneath a horn-topped helmet. Densely-incised cross hatches embellish the helmet with texture and negative resist