On view
Art of the Ancient Americas
Pectoral plaque fragment depicting a seated lord,
600–800
Maya
Late Classic Period
y1972-35
Information
Title
Pectoral plaque fragment depicting a seated lord
Dates
600–800
Medium
Mottled green and gray jadeite
Dimensions
h. 8.2 cm., w. 6.1 cm., d. 0.9 cm. (3 1/4 x 2 3/8 x 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, gift of the Hans A. Widenmann, Class of 1918, and Dorothy Widenmann Foundation
Object Number
y1972-35
Place Made
North America, Guatemala or Mexico, Maya area
Place Excavated
North America, Mexico, Michoacan, Central Mexico
Reference Numbers
K5340
Culture
Period
Materials
Subject
Purchased by the Princeton University Art Museum, 1972.
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"Acquisitions 1972", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 32, no. 1 (1973): p. 20-30.
, p. 28 (illus.); p. 30 -
Gérald Berjonneau, Emile Deletaille, and Jean-Louis Sonnery, Art précolombien Mexique, Guatemala (Paris: Editions Arts 135, 1985).
- Arne Eggebrecht, Glanz und Untergang des Alten Mexiko: Die Azteken und ihre Vorläufer (Mainz: Verlag Phillip von Zabern, 1986).
- Allen Rosenbaum and Francis F. Jones, Selections from The Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1986), p. 29 (illus.)
- Dorie Reents-Budet, Painting the Maya Universe: Royal Ceramics of the Classic Period (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1994)., fig. 2.4, cat. no. 89, p. 39 (illus.); pp. 356–357 (illus.); fig. 2.26, pp. 57 (illus.)
