Art Institute of Chicago
Storyteller
Ceramist unknown (Jalisco)LinkedCulture matchlcp-bd1bf4c02d5e
- Date
- 100–800 CE
- Medium
- Earthenware and slip
- Culture
- Jalisco state
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 73795
This energetic figure looks like he is about to tell a really interesting story. Unfortunately, what he sought to communicate is lost to time. In ancient west Mexico, such ceramic figures were used in life and ultimately interred in shaft tombs. Although West Mexican art has at times been overshadowed by Olmec, Maya, and Aztec art, it became popular among US collectors in the mid-20th century. Chicago has been a center for collecting West Mexican art and today the Art Institute stewards many pieces from these important ceramic traditions.
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- Credit line
- Bequest of Ruth Falkenau Fund in memory of her parents
- Provenance
- Private collector, Dallas, TX, from 1968 [signed statement, Feb. 24, 1989; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to Claudia Giangola and John Menser, Ancient Art of the New World, New York, by 1988 [invoice no. 1870, item 1-1148, Jan. 23, 1989; incoming permanent receipt RX17587, Dec. 28, 1988; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1989.
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- Object type
- AAT300301253
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