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Art of the Ancient Americas
Artist: Unknown
Basin (Apaztli)
1200–1521
Ceramic with pigment
34.2 cm (13 7/16 in.)
other: 35.5 cm (14 in.)
other: 35.5 cm (14 in.)
Stephen Carlton Clark, B.A. 1903, Fund
1973.88.43
Geography:
South Central Veracruz, Mexico
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.