Seated Figure Holding Celt

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Seated Figure Holding Celt

Date900–600 BC

MediumSerpentine

DimensionsOverall: 5 1/8 × 2 1/2 × 2 in. (13 × 6.4 × 5.1 cm)

Credit LineGift of Alfred C. Glassell, Jr.

Object number2002.4373

Current Location

The Caroline Wiess Law Building

205M Wiess Gallery

On view

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Department

Art of the Indigenous Americas, Glassell Collection

Object Type

SCULPTURE

Provenance(Lot #80 in Sotheby's Pre-Columbian Art Auction, May 28, 1997);
Alfred C. Glassell, Jr. Collection, Houston;
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2002, 2002.4373

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