Seated Female Figure | Yale University Art Gallery

A.D. 600–900

Not on view

Medium: Ceramic with pigment
Dimensions: 16.1 × 9.7 × 6.9 cm (6 5/16 × 3 13/16 × 2 11/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Thomas T. Solley, B.A. 1950
Accession Number: 2002.15.10
Geography: Mexico
Culture: Mexico, probably Campeche, Jaina Island, Maya
Period: Late Classic Period
Classification: Sculpture
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Provenance

Andre Emmerich; Thomas T. Solley (1924–2006), Bloomington, Ind., to 2002; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography

Sotheby's France, Paris, Le Soleil de Nuit : Trésors Précolombiens d‘une Grande Collection Française, sale cat. (October 30, 2019), 110–11, lot 37, ill.

Karl Taube, The Albers Collection of Pre-Columbian Art (New York: Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Inc., 1988), 156, no. VI-13.

Marta Foncerrada de Molina and Amalia Cardos de Mendez, Las Figurillas de Jaina, Campeche in el Museo Nacional de Antropologia Mexico, exh. cat. (Mexico City: Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, 1988).

Linda Schele and Mary E. Miller, The Blood of Kings: Dynasty and Ritual in Maya Art (Fort Worth, Tex.: Kimbell Art Museum, 1986).

Christopher Corson, Maya Anthropomorphic Figurines from Jaina Island, Campeche (Ramona, Calif.: Ballena Press, 1976).

Roman Piña Chán, Jaina, la casa en el agua (Mexico City: Instituto Nacional de Antropologia, 1968).

Object copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

human figures (visual works), sculptures

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