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CultureOlmec

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Seated Figure

Date1500–300 BC

Made inGulf Coast, Mexico

MediumEarthenware with slip

Dimensions16 3/4 × 12 1/4 × 9 in. (42.5 × 31.1 × 22.9 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by "One Great Night in November, 2014"

Object number2014.839

Current Location

The Caroline Wiess Law Building

205M Wiess Gallery

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Department

Art of the Indigenous Americas

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CERAMICS

ProvenanceAdler collection, New York, before 1968; [Edward H. Merrin Gallery, New York, 1968–1971] [1]; Adam Katz collection, Long Island, 1971–2014; [The Merrin Gallery, Inc., New York, 2014].

[1] Justin Kerr Photographic Archive, New York, 1969.
Exhibition History"Works of Art from Pre-Columbian Mexico and Guatemala," Edward H. Merrin Gallery, New York, 1971.

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