Geometrically Patterned Female Figure
Mesoamerica, Guanajuato or Michoacán, Chupícuaro · 400–100 BCE · Cleveland Museum of Art
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Artists of the Chupícuaro culture, based to the north of modern-day Mexico City, may be best known for hollow ceramic figurines like this one. Always female and often apparently pregnant, such figurines commonly are painted with stepped geometric motifs in vibrant, highly burnished slips (creamy mixtures of water and crushed minerals). The meanings of the motifs and the figurines themselves are poorly understood. This figure was formed in two halves that were hollowed out and joined at the hips.
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- Maker
- Mesoamerica, Guanajuato or Michoacán, Chupícuaro
- Date
- 400–100 BCE
- Medium
- Ceramic, slip
- Dimensions
- Overall: 15.6 x 8 x 5.7 cm (6 1/8 x 3 1/8 x 2 1/4 in.)
- Place of origin
- Mesoamerica
- Held by
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland · Not on view
- Credit line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Gruener
Image: Cleveland Museum of Art, CC0