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Seated Female Figure
200 BCE - 500 CE6 5/8 x 4 3/4 x 3 1/2 in. (16.8 x 12.1 x 8.9 cm)
Colima artist
Mexico
Colima; made in Mexico
Object Type:
Ceramics
Medium and Support:
Clay
Credit Line:
R. T. Miller Fund
Accession Number:
1954.40.1
Location: Currently on view
The ancient people of West Mexico focused upon the powerful bonds of familial relationships in their ceramics. Treating death not as an end of existence, but as a next stage in a larger journey, these transitional objects were made in the physical world for travel with the dead to the Underworld. Perhaps such figural ceramic groups were made to accompany the deceased into the afterlife as an extension of earthly comforts. Another, more symbolic and less personal approach interprets the ceramic groups as embodiments of agriculture, abundance or lineage.
[Gallery label text, 2009]
[Gallery label text, 2009]
Provenance
Stendahl Galleries, Los Angeles; purchased from them by the Gallery in 1954
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Exhibition List
This object was included in the following exhibitions:
- European Paintings from the Rochester Memorial Art Gallery 1/15/1967 - 9/30/1967
Bibliography
This object has the following bibliographic references:
- Article Title: Additions to the Pre-Columbian Collections. Article Scope: Article and reproduction. Memorial Art Gallery. Gallery Notes. Rochester, New York: Memorial Art Gallery, 1935-1995. Volume Number: 19, Issue Number: 3. Issue Date: January-February, 1954.
- Article Scope: Reproduction only. Rochester Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester Handbook. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 1961.
- Article Scope: Mention. Elizabeth Brayer. Magnum Opus: The Story of the Memorial Art Gallery, 1913-1988. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 1988.
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