Information
- Title
- "Pretty lady" figure
- Object Number
- 1999-241
- Medium
- Ceramic with traces of pigment
- Dates
- 1200–900 BCE
- Dimensions
- h. 10.0 cm., w. 4.5 cm., d. 2.4 cm. (3 15/16 x 1 3/4 x 15/16 in.)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Gillett G. Griffin
- Culture
- Early Preclassic
Tlatilco
- Period
- Formative
- Place made
- North America, Mexico, Mexico, D.F., Central Mexico, Tlatilco
February 28, 1970, sold by ‘J.P.’ to Gillett G. Griffin (1928-2016), Princeton, NJ [1]; 1999, gift of Gillett G. Griffin to the Princeton University Art Museum.
Notes:
[1] According to Griffin's Notebook 5-15.
- 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. 13, p. 308 (illus.)
- Robert M. Carmack et al., The Legacy of Mesoamerica: History and Culture of a Native American Civilization (Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1996), fig 14.2, p. 508 (illus.)
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1999," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 59, no. 1/2 (2000): p. 70-101., p. 96
- Robert M. Carmack, Janine Gasco, Gary H. Gossen, The Legacy of Mesoamerica: History and Culture of a Native American Civilization, 2nd edition (Abingson; New York: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, 2016).
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