Standing Male Figure Holding a Plate

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Arts of the Americas

100–400 CE

Colima
Colima, Mexico

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Culture: Colima
Title: Standing Male Figure Holding a Plate
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 CE–400 CE
Medium: Ceramic and pigment
Dimensions: 38.8 × 16.5 × 11.5 cm (15 5/16 × 6 1/2 × 4 9/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of James W. and Marilynn Alsdorf
Reference Number: 1962.1070
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Allen Wardwell, “Figures from the West Coast of Mexico,” The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly 57, no. 1 (Spring 1963): 9, fig. 2 (ill.).
Allen Wardwell. 1965. Primitive Art in the Collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, fig. 41 (ill.).
Richard Townsend with Elizabeth Pope, Indian Art of the Americas at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2016), 147, cat. 119 (ill.).

Chicago, Ill., Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, Mexicanidad, May 26, 2001–2002

James Alsdorf (died 1990) and Marilynn Alsdorf (born Bruder) (died 2019), Chicago, by Dec. 1962 [permanent receipt in curatorial file]; given to the Art Institute, 1962.

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