Painted Chest
Artist:
Unknown
Place made:Olinalá, Guerrero, Mexico
General region:North and Central America
Date: early- 20th century
Medium: Painted and lacquered wood
Dimensions:
h. 14 3/4 in. (37.5 cm); w. 33 in. (83.8 cm); w. 16 5/8 in. (42.2 cm)
Credit Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, The Nelson A. Rockefeller Mexican Folk Art Collection
Object number: 85.98.1324
Label Text
One of the best-known popular art traditions from Olinalá, Guerrero, is its production of lacquered objects, a genre that artists from the region have worked in for several hundred years. The orange base of these lacquered dowry chests specifies them as a works made in Olinalá. By the nineteenth century, chests such as these were made by an assembly line of artisans working on specific aspects of their production. (LA, 2020)
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