House Model

100 B.C.–A.D. 250

Ceramic

20.3 × 17.3 × 16.4 cm (8 × 6 13/16 × 6 7/16 in.)

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Olsen

1959.55.27

Geography:

Mexico

Status:

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center

Culture:

West Mexico, Nayarit, Ixtlán del Río Style

Period:

Protoclassic Period

Classification:

Sculpture

Provenance:

Fred H. Olsen (1891–1986), and Florence Quittenton Olsen, Guilford, Conn.; gift in 1959 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography:

Rosemary Sharp, “A Fine-Orange Vessel from the Olsen Collection,” Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 35, no. 2 (Spring 1975): 34, ill. cover, fig. 1.

George A. Kubler, ed., Pre-Columbian Art of Mexico and Central America (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1986), 185, 358, no. 410, fig. 241.

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