Information
- Title
- Seated corpulent man
- Object Number
- 2018-70
- Medium
- Dark green serpentine
- Dates
- 1000–500 BCE
- Dimensions
- 10.5 × 10 × 10 cm (4 1/8 × 3 15/16 × 3 15/16 in.)
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund
- Culture
- Olmec
- Period
- Formative
- Place made
- North America, El Salvador, Chalchuapa or vicinity
- Type
- Materials
- Techniques
Roberto Ardón, Los Angeles [1]; June, 1968, sold to André Emmerich, New York (OM 43) [2]; June 17, 1969, sold to Howard J. and Saretta Barnet, New York [3]; 14 May, 2018, sold through Sotheby’s, The Shape of Beauty: Sculpture from the Collection of Howard and Saretta Barnet, lot 18, to the Princeton University Art Museum.
Notes:
[1] According to Emmerich archive card. Copy in the curatorial file.
[2] Ibid.
[3] According to Emmerich invoice. Copy in the curatorial file.
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