Deity Impersonator

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Images(3)

Artist Unknown Central and South American

CultureColima

Titles

Deity Impersonator

Date300 BC–300 AD

PlaceMexico

MediumEarthenware with traces of polychrome pigment

DimensionsOverall (.A,.B): 15 in. (38.1 cm)
.A, Figure: 11 1/4 × 6 × 4 1/2 in. (28.6 × 15.2 × 11.4 cm)
.B, Helmet: 8 1/4 × 7 7/8 × 3 7/8 in. (21 × 20 × 9.8 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by James C. Flores at "One Great Night in November, 2013"

Object number2014.6.A,.B

Current Location

The Caroline Wiess Law Building

205M Wiess Gallery

Exposé

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Department

Art of the Indigenous Americas

Object Type

SCULPTURE

Provenance[Edward H. Merrin Gallery, New York, by 1969]; Private collection, by 1982; [Sotheby's, New York, May 16, 2013, lot 17]; [The Merrin Gallery, Inc., New York, 2013–2014]; purchased by MFAH, 2014.
Exhibition History“Fangs, Feathers, and Fins: Sacred Creatures in Ancient American Art,” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 15, 2014–March 22, 2015.
Published References Photographs by Justin Kerr taken in 1969. Edward H. Merrin Gallery, Works of Art from Pre-Columbian Mexico and Guatemala (New York: Edward Merrin Gallery, 1971), fig. 23.

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