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Weil, by exchange","markings":null,"inscribed":null,"signed":null,"catalograisonne":null,"creditlinerepro":"","restrictions":null,"nowebuse":"False","secondaryobjectnumber":null,"campuscollections":"false","on_view":false,"accessionyear":"1987-01-01","newaccession":0,"titles":[{"title":"Seated figure","titletype":"Primary Title","displayorder":1}],"makers":[],"depicted":[],"texts":[{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Gallery Label","textentryhtml":"Highland valleys above the Pacific coast of present-day El Salvador were once home to a culture known as Chalchuapa, named after the primary colonial city in the area. Early art from the region evinces strong connections to groups further north, including the Soconusco region of Guatemala and Chiapas, Mexico, as well as the Gulf Coast Olmec. Monumental sculpture, ceramics, and carved writings from Chalchuapa also bear strong similarities to the burgeoning Maya civilizations of the Guatemala highlands, particularly to the site of Kaminaljuyu. Figurines such as the example displayed here can be understood as transitional between the early figurine styles of the Olmec and those of the Maya; however, the expressivity and attention to physiognomy are signature interests of Chalchuapa artists.","remarks":"2015 AAA Reinstallation"}],"media":[{"id":7867,"uri":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/y1987-26_SL","isprimary":0,"rank":3,"mediatypeid":1,"mediaviewtype":"(not assigned)","restrictions":null,"caption":"Luna Digitization Project"},{"id":50009,"uri":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/INV016661","isprimary":1,"rank":2,"mediatypeid":1,"mediaviewtype":"(not assigned)","restrictions":null,"caption":"Inventory Project"}],"hasimage":"true","bibliography":[{"boilertext":"<P><EM>Pre-Columbian Art, </EM>sale cat.&nbsp;5247 (New York: Sotheby's, 1984) </P>","citation":"<P><EM>Pre-Columbian Art, </EM>sale cat.&nbsp;5247 (New York: Sotheby's, 1984) </P>, lot. 46 (illus.)","date":1984,"id":8018,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/17826267"},{"boilertext":"\"Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1987\", <i>Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University</i> 47, no. 1 (1988): p. 30-54.","citation":"\"Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1987\", <i>Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University</i> 47, no. 1 (1988): p. 30-54., pp. 50–51 (illus.)","date":1988,"id":542,"uri":"https://www.jstor.org/stable/3774608"}],"exhibitions":[],"geography":[{"displaygeography":"Place made: North America, El Salvador","code":"Place made","continent":"North America","subcontinent":"Intermediate area","country":"El Salvador","region":null,"state":null,"city":null,"county":null,"subregion":null,"locale":null,"locus":null,"river":null,"excavation":null,"geoname":"http://www.geonames.org/3585968/republic-of-el-salvador.html","location":{"lat":"","lon":""}}],"terms":[{"id":2055437,"term":"figurines","aatid":300047455,"termtype":"Classification"},{"id":2088280,"term":"women","aatid":300025943,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2055657,"term":"figures (representations)","aatid":300189808,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2049167,"term":"ceramics","aatid":300151343,"termtype":"Classification"},{"id":2035652,"term":"Middle Preclassic","aatid":300016973,"termtype":"Period / Style"},{"id":2035656,"term":"Late Preclassic","aatid":300016976,"termtype":"Period / Style"},{"id":2035852,"term":"Pre-Columbian Central American styles and periods","aatid":300108078,"termtype":"Period / Style"},{"id":2151023,"term":"sitting","aatid":null,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2168423,"term":"pigment","aatid":300013109,"termtype":"Materials"},{"id":2160397,"term":"slip","aatid":300010459,"termtype":"Materials"},{"id":2160750,"term":"ceramic","aatid":300235507,"termtype":"Materials"}],"classifications":[{"id":2055437,"classification":"figurines"},{"id":2049167,"classification":"ceramics"}],"cultures":[{"id":13994,"culture":"Chalchuapa","alphasort":"Chalchuapa","begindate":0,"enddate":0,"displayculture":"Chalchuapa","displaydate":null}],"cultureterms":[],"periods":[{"id":24009,"period":"Late Formative Period","alphasort":"Formative Period, Late","begindate":0,"enddate":0,"displayperiod":"Middle to Late Formative Period","displaydate":null}],"periodterms":[{"id":2035652,"period":"Middle Preclassic"},{"id":2035656,"period":"Late Preclassic"},{"id":2035852,"period":"Pre-Columbian Central American styles and periods"}],"attribute_groups":[{"id":2199317,"term":"Art of the Ancient Americas","termtype":"Collecting Area"}],"dimensionelements":[{"element":"Overall","type":"Height","units":"centimeters","dimension":"10.00"},{"element":"Overall","type":"Width","units":"centimeters","dimension":"7.65"},{"element":"Overall","type":"Depth","units":"centimeters","dimension":"6.63"}],"packages":[{"packageid":181974,"name":"web_2020_AAA"}],"primaryimage":["https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/INV016661"],"displaymaker":null,"displayculture":"Chalchuapa","displayperiod":"Middle to Late Formative Period","caption":"Chalchuapa, Middle to Late Formative Period, 800 BCE–200 CE, El Salvador, Intermediate area, Seated figure. 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