Seated Male Holding Chief’s Baton (200 BCE–300 CE): Art, History and Details
Seated Male Holding Chief’s Baton at the Cleveland Museum of Art: 200 BCE–300 CE, ceramic, pigment. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Seated Male Holding Chief’s Baton (200 BCE–300 CE) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
The ancient artists of West Mexico specialized in ceramic sculptures in a range of sizes, investing their creations with a warm humanity regardless of scale. This tripod-shaped figure represents a well-dressed chief holding a baton of authority.
Object facts
- Title: Seated Male Holding Chief’s Baton
- Date: 200 BCE–300 CE
- Culture: Mesoamerica, West Mexico, Nayarit
- Type: Ceramic
- Technique: ceramic, pigment
- Dimensions: Overall: 23.5 x 12 cm (9 1/4 x 4 3/4 in.)
- Collection: AA - Mesoamerica
- Department: Art of the Americas
- Accession number: 1952.228
Collection credit
Gift of John Wise
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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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