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300 B.C.–A.D. 300

Medium: Ceramic, painted and burnished
Dimensions: 18.7 × 13.5 cm (7 3/8 × 5 5/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Olsen
Accession Number: 1959.55.22
Geography: Mexico
Culture: West Mexico, Colima, Comala Style
Period: Protoclassic Period
Classification: Sculpture
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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.

Object copyright

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Object/Work type

human figures (visual works), sculpture

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