Ballplayer Figurine

Veracruz, Classic (Pánuco River Valley, northern Veracruz, Mexico)

800–1400

Medium

Earthenware and pigment

Classification

Sculpture

Dimensions

28.9 × 10.8 cm (11 3/8 × 4 1/4 in.)

Culture

Veracruz state

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of the Americas

Credit line

Gift of Ethel and Julian Goldsmith

Rights

Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.

Who can see it

Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

View at the Art Institute of Chicago

• Sculpture
• People
• 8th century
• Mexico
• Black, white and grey