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Seated Female Figure   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Anonymous (Colima)Unknown author
Title
Seated Female Figure
Description
English: The Coahuayana River Valley was home to many large villages and towns, and their artists produced a distinctive local version of the large, hollow tomb figure. Coahuayana figural art is characterized by elegant renderings of persons of authority. Most portrayals lack individuality and instead serve as sculptural representations of social position or political rank. This seated female's serene countenance, shoulder scarification patterns, necklace, and pierced ears denote a person of high status. The artist accentuated the figure with red slip, enhancing her hair, forearms, and legs below the knee. Her identification as a person of authority is further indicated by her sitting on a four-legged stool or bench; this type of seating was closely associated with elevated status throughout the ancient Americas. She raises a small dish in her right hand as if proffering its contents to unseen persons, perhaps participants in an aristocratic feasting event.
Date 100 BC-AD 300
Medium earthenware, burnished red slip paint with resist (?) designs in black
Dimensions height: 49.5 cm (19.4 in); width: 30.5 cm (12 in); depth: 24.8 cm (9.7 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,49.5U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,30.5U174728
dimensions QS:P5524,24.8U174728
institution QS:P195,Q210081
Accession number
2009.20.53
Place of creation Michoacán, Mexico (?)
Object history
  • Stendhal Galleries, Los Angeles [date and mode of acquisition unknown]
  • John G. Bourne, 1940s, by purchase
  • 2009: given to Walters Art Museum
Credit line Gift of John Bourne, 2009
Source Walters Art Museum: Home page  Info about artwork
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current14:45, 25 March 2012Thumbnail for version as of 14:45, 25 March 20121,202 × 1,800 (1.16 MB)File Upload Bot (Kaldari) (talk | contribs)== {{int:filedesc}} == {{Walters Art Museum artwork |artist = Colima |title = ''Seated Female Figure'' |description = {{en|The Coahuayana River Valley was home to many large villages and towns, and their artists produced a di...