Archaic Figurine (400–100 BCE): Art, History and Details
Archaic Figurine at the Cleveland Museum of Art: 400–100 BCE, earthenware with pigments. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Archaic Figurine (400–100 BCE) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
Burials from ancient villages near Chupicuaro, Guanajuato contain hundreds of pottery offerings. These include brightly colored vessels and solid figurines decorated with appliqué and incision. The cheerful, informal figurines were probably intended to provide the dead with companionship, and to remind them of their loved ones.
Object facts
- Title: Archaic Figurine
- Date: 400–100 BCE
- Culture: Mesoamerica, Mexico, Guanajuato, Chupícuaro
- Type: Ceramic
- Technique: earthenware with pigments
- Dimensions: Overall: 12.8 cm (5 1/16 in.)
- Collection: AA - Mesoamerica
- Department: Art of the Americas
- Accession number: 1952.454
Collection credit
Gift of John Wise
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