Figure

300 B.C.–A.D. 300

Ceramic, painted and burnished

18.7 × 13.5 cm (7 3/8 × 5 5/16 in.)

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Olsen

1959.55.22

Geography:

Mexico

Status:

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center

Culture:

West Mexico, Colima, Comala Style

Period:

Protoclassic Period

Classification:

Sculpture

Provenance:

Fred H. Olsen (1891–1986), and Florence Quittenton Olsen, Guilford, Conn.; gift in 1959 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography:

George A. Kubler, ed., Pre-Columbian Art of Mexico and Central America (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1986), 160, 325, no. 352, fig. 190.

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