Pedestal Sculpture with Seated Feline

350–100 B.C.

Volcanic stone

140.97 × 15.24 × 20.96 cm (55 1/2 × 6 × 8 1/4 in.)

Gift of Theodore N. Kaplan and Henry Tobin

2015.136.1

Geography:

Guatemala

or Chiapas, Mexico

Status:

On view

Culture:

Southern Guatemala, or Mexico, Chiapas, Izapa Region

Period:

Late Formative Period

Classification:

Sculpture

Provenance:

Purchased from Lands Beyond, NY May 1995; Private Collection

Bibliography:

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

“Acquisitions July 1, 2015–June 30, 2016,” https://artgallery.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/Pub_Bull_acquisitions_2016.pdf (accessed December 1, 2016).

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.

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 such records is ongoing.