Seated Portly Figure

AD 1000-1550 (Period VI)

15.2 cm 21.1 cm 16.5 cm

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Large, figural ceramic portrayals are rare in the artistic history of the Atlantic Watershed region, the later centuries typified instead by large-scale stone sculptures. The identity of this seated portly figure is somewhat ambiguous; he may be a chief or other powerful indiv...

Sculpture

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80361
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sculpture
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Enrique Vargas [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; John G. Bourne, 1990s, by purchase; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 2017.
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en
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4
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