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Standing female performer

AD 400-800
Object PlaceVeracruz, Mexico
Medium/TechniqueEarthenware with traces of blue paint
DimensionsHeight x width x depth: 27 1/4 x 17 x 4 3/4 in. (69.2 x 43.2 x 12.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of Marla S. and Bertram Perkel
Accession number2014.541
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsSculpture
Collections
Provenance1970, Edward H. Merrin Gallery, New York [see note]. March, 1971, with an unknown dealer, New York; March 6, 1971, anonymous (consigned by an unknown New York dealer) sale, Parke-Bernet, New York, lot 42, to Bertram and Marla Perkel, North Truro, MA; 2014, gift of Bertram and Marla Perkel to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 23, 2014)

NOTE: "Pre-Columbian Art of Mexico and Guatemala: A Sales Exhibition" (Merrin Gallery, New York, 1970), cat. no. 15.