Pedestal Sculpture with Seated Feline | Yale University Art Gallery

350–100 B.C.

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

Medium: Volcanic stone
Dimensions: 55 1/2 × 6 × 8 1/4 in. (140.97 × 15.24 × 20.96 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Theodore N. Kaplan and Henry Tobin
Accession Number: 2015.136.1
Geography: Guatemala, or Chiapas, Mexico
Culture: Southern Guatemala, or Mexico, Chiapas, Izapa Region
Period: Late Formative Period
Classification: Sculpture
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Provenance

Purchased from Lands Beyond, NY May 1995; Private Collection

Bibliography

Julia Guernsey et al., "Late Formative Feline Pedestal Sculptures and an Iconography of Cacao," Mexicon XXXLX (December 2017), 151–69, fig. 7

Andrew D. Turner, "The Roar of the Rain: A Late Preclassic Jaguar Pedestal Sculpture from Southern Mesoamerica," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2017), 90, fig. 1

Suzanne W. Miles, Handbook of Middle American Indians, ed. Robert Wauchope, 2 vols. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1964), 247, fig. 11d

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Object/Work type

pedestals

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