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Maskette fragment

Tlatilco, 900-500

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Tlatilco

Maskette fragment

Tlatilco

Maskette fragment

Tlatilco, 900-500

Physical Qualities Blackened earthenware, 1 7/8 × 1 7/8 × 1 3/16 in. (4.8 × 4.8 × 3 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John J. McCavitt, Plantation, Florida
Object Number 1993.401
Tlatilco artists are widely recognized for maskettes which bear a range of facial features and expressions. These diminutive masks were suspended over the nose, mouth, and chin of figural sculpture. Modernist Diego Rivera has long been considered one of the greatest proponents and collectors of Tlatilco art. For Rivera, Tlatilco artists had "attained a degree of character and imagination higher than the Maya."

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Tlatilco

2000–2000

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1150–100
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1988
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Standing female figure
1150–550
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1970
Tlatilco
Female figurine
900–501
THE HUNDRED GUILDER PRINT (FRAGMENT)
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Standing figure
900–501
THE HUNDRED GUILDER PRINT (FRAGMENT)
William Baillie and Rembrandt van Rijn
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1648–1792