Figure of Standing Man Displaying Jewelry

A.D. 600–900

Ceramic, mold-made bearing painted banner

22.2 × 8.37 × 4.5 cm (8 3/4 × 3 5/16 × 1 3/4 in.)

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Olsen

1959.55.12

Geography:

Mexico

Status:

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center

Culture:

Mexico, Maya, probably Jaina, Campeche

Period:

Late Classic Period

Classification:

Sculpture

Provenance:

Fred H. Olsen (1891–1986), and Florence Quittenton Olsen, Guilford, Conn.; gift in 1959 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), 139, 299, no. 306, fig. 154.

Yale University Art Gallery, Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin, 26, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1960), 43.

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