Human Effigy Vessel

A.D. 200–300

Ceramic

39.4 cm (15 1/2 in.)

Stephen Carlton Clark, B.A. 1903, Fund

1973.88.16

Geography:

Mexico

Status:

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center

Culture:

Mexico, Colima, Comala Style

Period:

Protoclassic Period

Classification:

Containers - Ceramics

Provenance:

Fred H. Olsen (1891–1986), and Florence Quittenton Olsen, Guilford, Conn.; gift in 1973 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography:

“Acquisitions, 1973,” Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 35, no. 1 (Summer 1974): 77.

Handbook of the Collections, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 313, ill.

George A. Kubler, ed., Pre-Columbian Art of Mexico and Central America (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1986), 162–63, 327, no. 356, fig. 193.

“New Acquisitions Issue,” Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 24, no. 1 (April 1958): 15, 17, fig. 4.

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