Basin (Apaztli)

1200–1521

Ceramic with pigment

34.2 cm (13 7/16 in.)
other: 35.5 cm (14 in.)

Stephen Carlton Clark, B.A. 1903, Fund

1973.88.43

Geography:

South Central Veracruz, Mexico

Status:

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center

Culture:

Mexico, South Central Veracruz

Period:

Late Postclassic Period

Classification:

Containers - Ceramics

Provenance:

Found near Cholula, Puebla. Fred H. Olsen (1891–1986), and Florence Quittenton Olsen, Guilford, Conn. (Olsen #2); gift in 1973 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography:

“Acquisitions, 1973,” Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 35, no. 1 (Summer 1974): 79, ill.

Handbook of the Collections, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 320, ill.

George A. Kubler, ed., Pre-Columbian Art of Mexico and Central America (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1986), 20, 49–50, 212, no. 52, color plate 2, pg. 20, fig. 28.

Patricia Kirkham and Susan Weber, eds., History of Design: Decorative Arts and Material Culture, 1400–2000 (New Haven: Bard Graduate Center, 2013), 126–27, fig. 6.14.

Sotheby’s, New York, Pre-Columbian Art, sale cat. (May 14, 1996), lot 156.

Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.