On view
East-West Artwalk
Haskell Education Center
Haskell Education Center
Seated figure,
1200–900 BCE
Olmec style
Early Formative Period
1996-155
Information
Title
Seated figure
Dates
1200–900 BCE
Medium
Ceramic with burnished cream slip and traces of red pigment
Dimensions
10.1 × 9 × 9.5 cm (4 × 3 9/16 × 3 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Peter Sharrer
Object Number
1996-155
Place Made
North America, Mexico, Puebla, said to be from Matamoros, Gulf Coast, Las Bocas
Marks/Labels/Seals
Painted on bottom: 9958
Culture
Period
Techniques
Subject
Mr. and Mrs. Martin R. Needleman, Los Angeles, CA, by 1968. [Sotheby's Pre-Columbian Art Sale in November 20 1995, Lot 84]. Petter Sharrer, New York, NY [1]; gift to the Princeton University Art Museum, 1996. [1] Peter Sharrer is the owner of New York based art gallery Peter Sharrer Ancient Art, Inc.
- Hasso Von Winning and Alfred Stendahl, Pre-Columbian Art of Mexico and Central America, (New York: Abrams, 1968), pl. 304
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Pre-Columbian Art, sale cat. 6778 (New York: Sotheby's, 1995)
, lot 61 (illus.) - "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1996," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 56, no. 1/2 (1997): p. 75-115., p. 103
