in animated posture with both hands raised in gesture and ornamented with thick bracelets, her distinguished face marked by beaded tattoos on the chin, a bead on the forehead and coiffure falling in a single plait down the back. 

Isidore Cohen, New York, (Sotheby Parke Bernet, May 12, 1979, lot 212)
New York private collector, (Sotheby's, New York, November 11, 1986, lot 145)
Daniel M. Friedenberg, The John Platt Collection (Sotheby's, New York, May 14, 2003, lot 258
Acquired by the present owner from the above auction

Overall good, has clean break and repair at elbows and PL shoulder, restoration on thumbs.
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This tall, full-bodied female figure represents the one of the two principal Maya female deities, the Moon Goddess, shown in idealized voluptuous form. She bears the fine scarification beading along her chin and raises her arms in gesture. There are a small number of these corpulent female figures with arms raised, see Berjonneau, Deletaille and Sonnery (1985: Fig. 400) for the figure in the Princeton University Art Museum; see also Miller (1975, Fig. 70).