LACMA

ShopMembershipMyLACMATickets
LACMA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90036
info@lacma.org
(323) 857-6000
Sign up to receive emails
Subscribe
© Museum Associates 2026
  • About LACMA
  • Jobs
  • Building LACMA
  • Host An Event
  • Unframed
  • Press
  • FAQs
  • Log in to MyLACMA
  • Privacy Policy
© Museum Associates 2026
Collections

Female Seated on a Stool (likely modern)600–1600 CE

Not on view
Small unglazed ceramic seated figure with a wide face, looped arms forming open handles, and a knobbed headdress, in mottled terracotta and gray tones
Ceramic seated figure with hands resting on knees, wearing a wrapped skirt and collar, with traces of red pigment; weathered buff-gray surface with incised detailing.
Ceramic seated figure with simplified facial features, wearing a headdress and incised patterned garment across the lap; traces of red and dark pigment remain on the weathered earthenware surface.
Ceramic seated figure with reddish-brown clay surface, wearing a large fan-shaped headdress with radiating ridges, a beaded collar, and a belt with incised zigzag pattern; arms form open loops at the sides.
Title
Female Seated on a Stool (likely modern)
Place Made
Colombia, Sinu, Betanci
Date Made
600–1600 CE
Medium
Ceramic
Dimensions
8 × 4 × 4 in. (20.32 × 10.16 × 10.16 cm)
Credit Line
The Muñoz Kramer Collection, gift of Camilla Chandler Frost and Stephen and Claudia Muñoz-Kramer
Accession Number
M.2007.146.616
Classification
Ceramics
Collecting Area
Art of the Ancient Americas