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Seated Female Figure Holding a Vessel
Colima · 100–400 CE
Provenance
Ownership history
- James W. Alsdorf (1913–1990) and Marilynn Alsdorf (1926-2019; born Marilynn Bruder), Winnetka, IL, by Nov. 16, 1962 [appraisal, Nov. 16, 1962; incoming receipt RX121, Dec. 10, 1962; copies in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1962.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Chicago, Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum (now National Museum of Mexican Art), <em>Mexicanidad: Our Past is Present</em>, Mar. 5, 2001–May 15, 2002, no cat.
Literature
Published references
- Allen Wardwell, "Figures from the West Coast of Mexico,” <em>The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly</em> 5, no. 1 (Spring 1963): 9, fig. 2 (ill.).
- Allen Wardwell, <em>Primitive Art in the Collections of the Art Institute of Chicago</em>, (Art Institute of Chicago, 1965), n.p., cat. 41 (ill.).
- Richard Townsend with Elizabeth Pope, <em>Indian Art of the Americas at the Art Institute of Chicago</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 2016), 147, cat. 120 (ill.).
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