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    Collection Objects
    Art of the Ancient Americas

    Plate

    Artist: Unknown
    Date: 
    1250–1521
    Medium: 

    Ceramic with pigment

    Accession Number: 
    2017.14.24
    Culture: 
    Mexico, Puebla or Tlaxcala, Nahua
    Period: 
    Late Postclassic Period
    Classification: 
    Containers - Ceramics
    Status: 
    Not on view
    Collection Objects
    Art of the Ancient Americas

    Fragment of edge of plate, with image of monkey

    Artist: Unknown
    Date: 
    A.D. 900–1521
    Medium: 

    Burnished reddish Ceramic with polychrome paint

    Accession Number: 
    1958.14.66
    Culture: 
    Mexico, Oaxaca, Puebla, or Tlaxcala
    Period: 
    Early Postclassic Period to Late Postclassic Period
    Classification: 
    Containers - Ceramics
    Status: 
    By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
    Collection Objects
    Art of the Ancient Americas

    Incense Burner

    Artist: Unknown
    Date: 
    1200–1521
    Medium: 

    Ceramic

    Accession Number: 
    1961.43.3
    Culture: 
    Mexico, Oaxaca or Puebla, Mixtec
    Period: 
    Late Postclassic Period
    Classification: 
    Containers - Ceramics
    Status: 
    By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
    Collection Objects
    Art of the Ancient Americas

    Lidded Vessel in the Shape of a Squash

    Artist: Unknown
    Date: 
    1200–900 B.C.
    Medium: 

    Onyx or marble

    Accession Number: 
    2016.61.1a-b
    Culture: 
    Mexico, probably Puebla, Las Bocas, Olmec
    Period: 
    Early Formative Period
    Classification: 
    Containers - Stone
    Status: 
    On view
    Collection Objects
    Art of the Ancient Americas

    Bowl with a Dragon’s Head in Profile

    Artist: Unknown
    Date: 
    1500–1300 B.C.
    Medium: 

    Ceramic with traces of cinnabar

    Accession Number: 
    2018.173.9
    Culture: 
    Mexico, Puebla, Las Bocas, Olmec
    Period: 
    Early Formative, Ayotla phase
    Classification: 
    Containers - Ceramics
    Status: 
    By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
    Collection Objects
    Art of the Ancient Americas

    Vessel in the Shape of an Eagle

    Artist: Unknown
    Date: 
    1250–1521
    Medium: 

    Ceramic with pigment

    Accession Number: 
    2016.148.1
    Culture: 
    Mexico, Puebla, Tlaxcala, or Oaxaca, Nahua or Mixtec
    Period: 
    Late Postclassic Period
    Classification: 
    Containers - Ceramics
    Status: 
    On view
    Collection Objects
    Art of the Ancient Americas

    Tripod Bowl Fragment with Leg

    Artist: Unknown
    Date: 
    A.D. 1250–1521
    Medium: 

    Ceramic with pigment

    Accession Number: 
    2018.45.128
    Culture: 
    Mexico, Oaxaca or Puebla, Nahua or Mixtec
    Period: 
    Late Postclassic
    Classification: 
    Containers - Ceramics
    Status: 
    By appointment, Wurtele Study Center