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Art of the Ancient Americas
Artist: Unknown
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
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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