坐式球类运动员 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	坐式球类运动员
品名（英）	Seated Ballplayer
入馆年号	2005年，2005.91.1
策展部门	迈克尔·洛克菲勒之翼（The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing）
创作者
创作年份	公元前 25 - 公元 325
创作地区	墨西哥, 哈利斯科（Mexico, Jalisco）
分类	陶瓷雕塑（Ceramics-Sculpture）
尺寸	高 19 × 宽 13 × 深 9 3/8 英寸 (48.3 × 33 × 23.8 厘米)
介绍（中）	棒球运动员的图像在古墨西哥制作了数千年。这场比赛用一个大橡胶球进行，节奏快，有很多层次的意义，而且总是一项重要的男性活动。墨西哥西海岸哈利斯科州的陶瓷雕塑中出现了对游戏和玩家的描绘，这些作品是在第一个千年之交前后的几个世纪里制作的，当时它们的制造商蓬勃发展。这位令人印象深刻的坐着的球员，具有哈利斯科的Ameca Etzatlan风格，以一种展示的方式，虔诚地将大球举得很高。他的短"裤子"是一种典型的球员服装，当球被推进时，臀部低至地面，可以保护下半身。在墨西哥的偏远地区，这种游戏一直持续到二十世纪<哈利斯科的陶瓷雕塑被用作重要家族成员墓中的陪葬品。据推测，棒球运动员的画像是为了埋葬一位技术娴熟的球员。
介绍（英）	Images of ballplayers were made in ancient Mexico for millennia. The game, played with a large rubber ball, was fast paced and had many layers of meaning—and it was always a significant male activity. Depictions of both game and players appear in the ceramic sculptures of Jalisco, a state on the west coast of Mexico, where such works were produced in the centuries around the turn of the first millennium when their makers flourished. This impressive seated player, in the Ameca-Etzatlan style of Jalisco, holds the large ball reverentially high, in a manner of presentation. His short "pants," a typical player costume, protect the lower body as the ball was propelled with the hips low to the ground. In remote areas of Mexico a game was played in this manner well into the twentieth century. The ceramic sculpture of Jalisco was used as funerary offerings in the tombs of members of important families. It is conjectured that depictions of ballplayers were meant to accompany the burial of a man who had been a skilled player.