Embracing Couple
Date700/900
Modern PlaceCampeche, Mexico, North America
MediumTerracotta with pigments
ClassificationsSculpture
Dimensions9 3/4 inches (24.77 cm)
Credit LineFounders Society Purchase, Katherine Margaret Kay Bequest Fund and New Endowment Fund
Object number77.49
DescriptionStanding male and female figures. Young woman with high-looped headdress and long mantle embraced by older man wearing high puffy hat and loin cloth. There are traces of blue in the woman's mantle. The man's body is painted earth red.On View
Not on viewLocations
- Storage - Long-term Demo Museum (1995 Broadway), Department Storage, Americas
ProvenanceFormerly in the colection of:
Edward H. Merrin
1650/1700
19th Century
c. 1880
c. 1850
c. 1900
1300/1500
1100/1400
900/1200