Female Figure with Elaborate Garments | Yale University Art Gallery

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A.D. 600–900

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

Medium: Mold-made ceramic
Dimensions: 25.4 × 19.05 × 5.72 cm (10 × 7 1/2 × 2 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Dicey Taylor, Ph.D. 1983, and Justin Kerr
Accession Number: 2017.111.1
Geography: Veracruz, Mexico
Culture: Mexico, Veracruz, Joachin
Period: Late Classic Period
Classification: Sculpture
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Provenance

Purchased in the 1970s in Mexico from the dealer Socorro Navarrete
Collection of Justin Kerr

Bibliography

"Acquisitions July 1, 2017–June 30, 2018," https://artgallery.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/bulletin/Pub-Bull-acquisitions-2018.pdf (accessed December 1, 2018).

Dr. Marilyn M. Goldstein, Ceremonial Sculpture of Ancient Veracruz, exh. cat. (Brookville, N.Y.: C.W. Post Center, Long Island University, 1988), 67, no. 96, ill.

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Object/Work type

human figures (visual works), sculpture

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