Female Ballplayer | Yale University Art Gallery

1300–800 B.C.

On view, 1st floor, Art of the Ancient Americas

Medium: Ceramic with pigment
Dimensions: 12 3/4 × 3 3/4 × 2 1/4 in. (32.385 × 9.525 × 5.715 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Peter David Joralemon, B.A. 1969, M.Phil. 1974
Accession Number: 2008.215.59
Geography: Guerrero, Mexico
Culture: Mexico, Guerrero, Xochipala
Period: Early Formative to Middle Formative Period
Classification: Sculpture
Disclaimer: Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of records is ongoing.

Provenance

Dan Friedenberg (died 2011), New York, 1981; sale, Sothebys, New York, May 15, 2003, lot 224; sold to Peter David Joralemon, New York, 2003 (inv. no. PCS324) (on loan to the Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, 2003-2008); 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

Hasso Von Winning, The John-Platt Collection of Pre-Columbian Art (Charlottesville, Va.: University of Virginia, 1986), 51, no. 68, ill.

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

Additional information

Object/Work type

human figures (visual works)

Subject

standing women

Technical metadata and APIs

IIIF: Open in Mirador

View IIIF manifest

The International Image Interoperability Framework, or IIIF, is an open standard for delivering high-quality, attributed digital objects online at scale. Visit iiif.io to learn more
Linked Art: API response for this object

Linked Art is a Community working together to create a shared Model based on Linked Open Data to describe Art.