Seated Figure | Yale University Art Gallery

1500–1000 B.C.

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

Medium: Ceramic with pigment
Dimensions: 3 7/8 × 2 3/4 × 2 1/2 in. (9.8 × 7 × 6.4 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Peter David Joralemon, B.A. 1969, M.Phil. 1974
Accession Number: 2018.173.6
Geography: Guatemala, or Mexico
Culture: Mexico or Guatemala, Olmec
Period: Early Formative
Classification: Sculpture
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Provenance

Acquired from New York Private Collector in the late 1990s
Ex-collection : Samuel Dubiner, Tel Aviv

Object copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

figurines, human figures (visual works)

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