Seated couple

200 B.C. - 300 A.D.

Couples depicted in fond embraces and in separate mourning poses are popular themes in ancient West Mexican ceramics. It is not known whether these couples are portraits of domestic tranquility or mythic encounters. Nearly fifteen centuries separate us from these cultures. This brilliant outpouring of ceramics remains outside the stylistic mainstream of Mexican highland artistic development.

Ceramic

9 5/16 in. (23.62 cm)

Bequest of Dr. Richard E. Fuller

76.300

Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Art of the Ancient Americas, July 10, 1999 - May 11, 2003

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