Ballplayer | Yale University Art Gallery

A.D. 600–900

On view, 1st floor, Art of the Ancient Americas

Medium: Ceramic with pigment
Dimensions: 4 1/2 × 4 3/4 × 1 1/4 in. (11.43 × 12.065 × 3.175 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Peter David Joralemon, B.A. 1969, M.Phil. 1974
Accession Number: 2017.14.5
Geography: Veracruz, Mexico
Culture: Mexico, Veracruz, Nopiloa III
Period: Late Classic Period
Classification: Sculpture
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Provenance

Ex-Collection: Marianne and Robert Huber, Dixon, Wally Zollman, Indianapolis.
Acquired in the 1990s from Judith Nash, NY 1990s.

Bibliography

"Acquisitions July 1, 2016–June 30, 2017," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2017), 14

Lee Allen Parsons, John B. Carlson, and Peter David Joralemon, The Face of Ancient America: The Wally and Brenda Zollman Collection of PreColumbian Art, exh. cat. (Indianapolis: Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1988), 150–51, no. 100, ill

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Additional information

Object/Work type

human figures (visual works), sculptures

standing

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