Information
- Title
- Standing bearded figure
- Object Number
- 2018-94
- Medium
- Ceramic with red slip-paint
- Dates
- 1200–900 BCE
- Dimensions
- 35.6 × 17.8 × 14.9 cm (14 × 7 × 5 7/8 in.)
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase, Peter Jay Sharp, Class of 1952, Fund
- Culture
- Tlatilco
- Period
- Formative
- Place made
- North America, Mexico, Central Mexico, Tlatilco
- Materials
- Techniques
By 1965, Jay C. Leff (1925-2000), Uniontown, PA [1]; May 12, 1983, “Important Pre-Columbian Art,” Sotheby’s, New York, lot 45, sold to unknown private collection [2]. May 14, 2004, “African, Oceanic and Pre-Columbian Art,” Sotheby’s, New York, lot 145, sold to Ancient Art of the New World (John Menser and Claudia Giangola), New York [3]; 2004, Ancient Art of the New World sold to US private collection [4]; August 15, 2018, US private collection sold to Princeton University Art Museum.
Notes:
[1] According to Michael Coe The Jaguar’s Children: Pre-Classic Central Mexico (The Museum of Primitive Art, New York, 1965), cat. no. 183.
[2] According to “Important Pre-Columbian Art” (Sotheby’s, New York, 1983), lot 45.
[3] According to “African, Oceanic and Pre-Columbian Art” Sotheby’s, New York, 2004), lot 142.
[4] According to US private collection.
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