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Female Figure
Female Figure
Artist/Maker
Datec. 1200-500 BCE
MediumCeramic with burnished slip
DimensionsOverall: 11 1/4 in. × 7 in. × 4 in. (28.6 × 17.8 × 10.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Museum of Art
Object number2001.1.2
Not on view
DescriptionRed clay figure of a seated woman in typical Tlatlico style with stylized shortened and tappered armes and legs and a hole all the way through the figure at the navel. PR leg is broken
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Alternate Titles Figurine of a Seated Female
Exhibition History 2012
Clinton, NY. Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College. "Archive Hall: Art and Artifacts," October 6, 2012 - Present (no cat.).

1980 (Possibly based on title history)
Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute. "Splendors of the Precolumbian World"
Provenance 2001: Hamilton College (Fred L. Emerson Gallery), by gift of Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Bunshaft.
Inscribed "71.8" on bottom in red marker.
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Photograph by Dave Revette.
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Date: c. 700-950 CE
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Tripod Bowl
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Medium: Incised ceramic with red slip
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Pedestal Vessel
Pedestal Vessel
Date: c. 700-950 CE
Medium: Burnished brown clay and red paint
Object number: 2001.1.15
Artwork is in the public domain. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Museum of Art at Hamilton…
Crouching Feline Figure
Date: c. 1300-1500 CE
Medium: Blackware ceramic
Object number: 2001.1.38
Photograph by John Bentham.
Red-figure hydria (water jar)
Unknown artist
Date: c. 350-325 BCE
Medium: Terracotta with slip
Object number: 1929.44
Bowl
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Date: c. 300-500 CE
Medium: Incised ceramic with black slip
Object number: 2001.1.33
Bowl
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Date: 100 BCE-750 CE
Medium: Polychromed ceramic and paint
Object number: 2001.1.39
Photograph by David Revette.
Fragment of an East Greek black-figure closed vase
Date: 560-520 BCE
Medium: Terracotta with slip
Object number: 1943.145
Artwork is in the public domain. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Museum of Art at Hamilton…
Effigy Vessel
Date: c. 1300-1550
Medium: Blackware ceramic
Object number: 2001.1.40
Photograph by Dave Revette.
Attic black-figure lekythos
Manner of the Haimon Painter
Date: c. 500-480 BCE
Medium: Terracotta with slip
Object number: 1929.20
Photograph by Dave Revette.
Black-figure lekythos (oil jar)
Manner of the Haimon Painter
Date: c. 500-480 BCE
Medium: Terracotta with slip
Object number: 1929.22