Seated figure
Seated figure

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Seated figure,

200 BCE–200 CE

Late Formative Period
2016-1349

Information

Title
Seated figure
Dates

200 BCE–200 CE

Medium
Burnished redware ceramic with black pigment
Dimensions
14 × 7.7 × 10 cm (5 1/2 × 3 1/16 × 3 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Gillett G. Griffin
Object Number
2016-1349
Place Made

North America, Mexico, Nayarit, West Mexico

Period
Preclassic, Late Preclassic
Type
figurines, ceramics
Materials
pigment, redware
Techniques
burnishing (polishing)
Subject
figures (representations)

Acquired by Gillett G. Griffin (1928-2016), Princeton, NJ, possibly by May 28 1970, no later than April 1971 [1]; bequest to the Princeton University Art Museum, 2016. [1] According to dated slides in the Griffin archive.

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