Figure of an Aristocratic Lady

650–800 · Yucatan Peninsula

Earthenware and pigment

Art Institute of Chicago · Medieval (500–1500) · CC0 · Gift of Ethel F. Goldsmith in memory of Julian R. Goldsmith

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