Seated adult,

400 BCE–500 CE

Possibly sold in Mexico by Alberto Ulrich to Gillett G. Griffin (1928-2016), Princeton, NJ [1]; possibly September 19, 1970, sold by Teochita Inc to Gillett G. Griffin (1928-2016), Princeton, NJ; 1972, gift of Gillett G. Griffin to the Princeton University Art Museum.

Notes:
[1] According to Gillett Griffin, he acquired this pair from Alberto Ulrich, who brought these pieces from Mexico to the US. There is also a Teochita invoice dated September 12, 1970, in the curatorial file that may match these pieces. It describes Teochita objects ZJ 48 and 49, a “Pair Clay Figures. Xochipala, Guerrero.”

• Gillett G. Griffin, "Xochipala, the Earliest Great Art Style in Mexico," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 116, no. 4 (August 1972): 301-309, fig. 12, p. 308 (illus.)
• Carlo T. E. Gay, Xochipala: The Beginnings of Olmec Art (Princeton, The Princeton University Art Museum, 1972)., fig. 38 (illus.)

• "Acquisitions 1972", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 32, no. 1 (1973): p. 20-30.

  , p. 30
• Curt Muser, Facts and Artifacts of Ancient Middle America: A Glossary of Terms and Words Used in the Archaeology and Art History of Pre-Columbian Mexico and Central America (NewYork: E. P. Dutton, 1978)., pl. 26 (illus.)

• Frances Pratt and Carlo T. E. Gay, Ceramic figures of ancient Mexico: Guerrero, México, Guanajuato, Michoacán, 1600 B.C.-300 A.D. (Graz: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt, 1979).

  , fig. 29 (illus.)
• National Sculpture Review 35, 3 (1986): 8-9., p. 8 (illus.), p. 9
• Hugh Honour and John Fleming, A World History of Art, 7th revised edition (London: Laurence King Publishing, 2005).
• Allen Rosenbaum, "'Gillett and Me': How a Eurocentric Museum Director Learned to Love Pre-Columbian Art," Record of the Princeton University Art Museum 64 (2005): 8-19., fig. 6, p. 12
• 10,000 Years of Art (London and New York: Phaidon, 2009)., p. 60 (illus.)
• Richard Schlagman and Phaidon Press, The Art Museum (London; New York: Phaidon Press Inc., 2011)., fig. 10, p. 237 (illus.)
• Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collections (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2013), p. 365
• Luoghi dell'infinito no. 203 (Feb., 2016).

• Unexpected Journey: Gillett G. Griffin and the Art of the Ancient Americas at Princeton (May 7–June 26, 2005)