Seated Female Figure Holding a Bowl

100–800 CE

Colima
Colima, Mexico

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

Culture: Colima
Title: Seated Female Figure Holding a Bowl
Place: Western Mexico (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–800 CE
Medium: Ceramic and pigment
Dimensions: 53.3 × 34.9 × 25.4 cm (21 × 13 3/4 × 10 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Everett McNear in memory of Everett McNear
Reference Number: 1986.1088
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Allen Wardwell, Primitive Art from Chicago Collections, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1960), fig. 24 (ill.).
Richard Townsend, The Art of Tribes and Early Kingdoms: Selections from Chicago Collections, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1983), 26-27, fig. 36 (ill.).
Richard Townsend with Elizabeth Pope, Indian Art of the Americas at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2016), 156, cat. 130 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, Primitive Art From Chicago Collections, Nov. 16, 1960–Jan. 2, 1961, cat.
Art Institute of Chicago, The Art of Tribes and Early Kingdoms: Selections from Chicago Collections, Jan. 12–Mar. 4, 1984, cat. fig. 36.

Everett D. Rassiga (1922–2003), New York, by 1958 [according to correspondence from A. McNear, Oct. 16, 1986, copy in curatorial object file]; sold to Everett (1904–1984) and Ann (died 1994) McNear, Chicago, by 1960 [on loan to the Art Institute of Chicago for exhibition Primitive Art from Chicago Collections, Wardwell 1960, cat. 24]; by descent to Ann McNear, Chicago, 1984 [incoming receipt, RX16234, Oct. 15, 1986, copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1986.

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