Standing figure
Standing figure
Standing figure
Standing figure
Standing figure
Standing figure
Standing figure
Standing figure
Standing figure
Standing figure

On view

Art of the Ancient Americas

Standing figure,

1000–400 BCE

Olmec style
Middle Formative Period
2024-17

Information

Title
Standing figure
Dates

1000–400 BCE

Medium
White jadeite with brown staining
Dimensions
15.3 × 4.2 × 3.7 cm (6 × 1 5/8 × 1 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, The Peter Jay Sharp, Class of 1952, Curatorship of the Art of the Ancient Americas
Object Number
2024-17
Place Made

North America, Mexico, Puebla

Inscription
in ink on back of leg: PC139
Culture
Olmec
Period
Middle Preclassic
Type
jades, sculptures

1959, D. Daniel Michel, Chicago (1902-2004) [1]; 1991, D. Daniel Michel sold through Ancient Art of the New World, New York, to US private collection [2]; 2023, sold to the Princeton University Art Museum.

Notes:
[1] According to D. Daniel Michel’s personal collection catalogue, in which this work is identified as #59:056. The first two digits indicate the year in which Michel acquired the work. Corroborated by the object’s exhibition and publication by the Art Institute of Chicago in 1960, when listed as a loan from Michel.
[2] According to US private collection.

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