Female Figurine

2700-1400 BCE

2.7 cm 5.9 cm 1.3 cm

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Among the earliest ceramic figural art in South America is the figurine tradition of the Valdivia culture, which arose on the Guayas Coast of southwestern Ecuador sometime after 3200 BCE. The tiny figurine's highly stylized form attests to the Valdivia artists' sculptural sens...

Sculpture

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Private collection, Arizona; Ron Messick Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; John G. Bourne, October 3, 1998, by purchase; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 2017.
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en
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