Bottle | Yale University Art Gallery

1500–1000 B.C.

On view, 1st floor, Art of the Ancient Americas

Medium: Ceramic with pigment
Dimensions: 13 3/4 × 7 in. (34.925 × 17.78 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Peter David Joralemon, B.A. 1969, M.Phil. 1974
Accession Number: 2008.215.34
Geography: Tlatilco, Mexico
Culture: Mexico, Tlatilco
Period: Early Formative Period
Classification: Containers
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Provenance

Arthur N. Seiff, New York. Sale, Sotheby’s, New York, May 16, 1989, lot 86; sold to Peter David Joralemon New York, 1989 (inv. no. PCV42); given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2008

Bibliography

"Acquisitions 2009," in "State of the Art: Contemporary Sculpture," special issue, Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2009), 144, ill

Sotheby's, New York, Sotheby's African, Oceanic, and Pre-Columbian Art, sale cat. (November 18–19, 2000), 191, no. 386, same style and shape as 2008.215.34, slight difference in design

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

Additional information

Object/Work type

bottles, utilitarian objects

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