Embracing Couple
Date700/900
Modern PlaceCampeche, Mexico, North America
MediumTerracotta with pigments
Dimensions9 3/4 inches (24.77 cm)
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LineFounders Society Purchase, Katherine Margaret Kay Bequest Fund and New Endowment Fund
Terms
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 view
1307/1196 BC
1650/1700
c. 1860
1928
1521
1521
c. 1850
late 15th Century
c. 1835
1652
c. 1485