Female Figurine (c. 1500–500 BCE): Art, History and Details
Female Figurine at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1500–500 BCE, earthenware with pigment. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Female Figurine (c. 1500–500 BCE) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
This delicately beautiful figurine portrays an adolescent girl wearing only boots, a belt, jewelry, and cinnabar paint. The sensitive modeling of the face and body is enhanced by the meticulous detailing of applied elements such as the coiffure and belt.
Object facts
- Title: Female Figurine
- Date: c. 1500–500 BCE
- Culture: Mexico, Guerrero, Xalitla, Xochipala style
- Type: Sculpture
- Technique: earthenware with pigment
- Dimensions: Overall: 9.8 x 3.8 x 2.2 cm (3 7/8 x 1 1/2 x 7/8 in.)
- Collection: AA - Mesoamerica
- Department: Art of the Americas
- Accession number: 1993.203
Collection credit
John L. Severance Fund
Further reading listed by the museum
- “1993 Annual Report.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 81, no. 6 (July 1994): 143–218.
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See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.
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