Venezuelan figurine Artist: Unknown

1000–1500

Art of the Ancient Americas

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Medium

Ceramic

Dimensions

3 3/16 × 2 1/4 × 1 5/16 in. (8.05 × 5.69 × 3.35 cm)

Credit Line

Bequest of Erika and Thomas Leland Hughes, B.A. 1945, LL.B. 1949

Accession Number

2014.121.92

Geography

Venezuela

Culture

Venezuela, Trujillo

Classification

Sculpture

Disclaimer

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Provenance
From the collection of Erika Hughes, Hughes Bequest.
Bibliography
  • "Acquisitions 2015," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin: Online Supplement (accessed December 1, 2015), 19
  • Miguel G. Arroyo, Lourdes Blanco, and Erika Wagner, El arte prehispanico de Venezuela (Caracas, Venezuela: Galería de Arte Nacional, 1999), 33, 41
  • Alfredo Boulton, El arte en la ceramica aborigen de venezuela (Caracas, Venezuela: S.p.A. Antonio Cordani, 1978), 110, 187–88, 191–94
  • Alan Lapiner, Pre-Columbian Art of South America (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1976), 394
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

figurines, human figures (visual works)

Subject

standing

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