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Figure of an underworld deity,
600–800
Maya
Late Classic Period
y1968-131
Information
Title
Figure of an underworld deity
Dates
600–800
Medium
Ceramic with traces of polychrome pigment
Dimensions
22.2 × 9 × 6.2 cm (8 3/4 × 3 9/16 × 2 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of J. Lionberger Davis, Class of 1900
Object Number
y1968-131
Place Made
North America, Mexico, Chiapas, Maya area, Palenque or vicinity
Marks/Labels/Seals
Written in orange on verso, bottom center: CH18
Reference Numbers
LC-f5-7 (Maya Photographic Archive, Dumbarton Oaks)
Culture
Period
Type
Materials
Subject
[Chait Gallery, run by Ralph Chait, New York, NY]; purchased by J. Lionberger Davis (1878 - 1973), Princeton, NJ; gift to the Princeton University Art Museum, 1968.
- Alfreda J. Murck, "Acquisitions 1968", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 27, no. 2 (1968): p. 94-105., p. 96
- "Gifts by J. Lionberger Davis, Class of 1900, to the Art Museum", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 33, no. 2 (1974): p. 24-30., p. 25
- Linda Schele, Hidden Faces of the Maya (Poway: ALTI Publishing, 1997)., pl. 23, p. 116 (illus.)
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Andrew James Hamilton, "New Horizons in Andean Art History," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 75/76 (2016-17): 42-101.
, p. 65, no. 28
