Standing Figure

100 B.C.–A.D. 100

Mottled green stone

9.8 × 4.4 cm (3 7/8 × 1 3/4 in.)

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Olsen

1958.86.14

Geography:

Guerrero, Mexico

Status:

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center

Culture:

Mexico, Guerrero, Mezcala

Period:

Early Classic Period

Classification:

Sculpture

Provenance:

Fred H. Olsen (1891–1986), and Florence Quittenton Olsen, Guilford, Conn.; gift in 1958 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography:

George A. Kubler, ed., Pre-Columbian Art of Mexico and Central America (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1986), 91, 252, no. 165, fig. 82.

Richard Brettell, “Mezcala Stone Sculpture in the Olsen Collection,” Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 35, no. 1 (Summer 1974): 16, fig. 1.

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