Figure of a Seated Chieftain

100 BCE–250 CE

Colima
Colima, Mexico

Status: On View, Gallery 136
Department: Arts of the Americas

Culture: Colima
Title: Figure of a Seated Chieftain
Place: Colima state (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 100 BCE–250 CE
Medium: Ceramic and pigment
Dimensions: 49.5 × 28 × 24 cm (19 1/2 × 11 × 9 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Through prior acquisitions of the African and Amerindian Art Purchase Fund
Reference Number: 1997.363
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Richard Townsend, ed., Ancient West Mexico: Art and Archaeology of the Unknown Past, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), 134, cat. 37 (ill.).
Richard Townsend with Elizabeth Pope, Indian Art of the Americas at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2016), 164, cat. 142 (ill.).

Chicago, Mexican Fine Arts Center [National Museum of Mexican Art], Mexicanidad, Mar. 26, 2001–Mar. 26, 2002. no cat.
Art Institute of Chicago, Ancient West Mexico: Art and Archaeology of the Unknown Past, Sept. 5–Nov. 22, 1998, cat. 37; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Dec. 20–Mar. 29, 1999.

Private collection, TX, c. 1969 [this and the following according to Ancient Art of the New World, Invoice 2039, no. 1-1286, June 13, 1997, copy in curatorial object file]. Claudia Giangola and John Menser, Ancient Art of the New World, New York, by 1997 [Incoming permanent receipt, RX21633, June 6, 1997, copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1997.

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