Standing female figurine with elaborate necklace and skirt Maker: Unknown

300 B.C.–A.D. 250

Art of the Ancient Americas

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Medium

Ceramic

Dimensions

5 7/8 × 2 3/4 in. (14.923 × 6.985 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Peter David Joralemon, B.A. 1969, M.Phil. 1974

Accession Number

2008.215.5

Geography

Guerrero, Mexico

Culture

Mexico, Guerrero, Olmec

Period

Late Formative to Early Classic Period

Classification

Sculpture

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Provenance
With Lands Beyond, New York, by late 1960s; sold to Guy Wilcox, Bergenfield, N.J., late 1960s; sold to Peter David Joramelon, New York, 2003 (inv. no. PCS373); given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2008
Bibliography
  • "Acquisitions 2009," in "State of the Art: Contemporary Sculpture," special issue, Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2009), 144
  • Karl Taube, The Albers Collection of Pre-Columbian Art (New York: Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Inc., 1988), 95, no. III-2
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

figurines, human figures (visual works)

Subject

standing women

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