Plumbate head vase of a bearded old man Yale University Art Gallery

A.D. 900–1200

Medium: Ceramic, Tohil Plumbate
Dimensions: 7 1/8 × 5 1/2 × 7 in. (18.098 × 13.97 × 17.78 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Peter David Joralemon, B.A. 1969, M.Phil. 1974
Accession Number: 2008.215.42
Geography: Mexico
Culture: Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, or El Salvador, Maya
Period: Early Postclassic Period
Classification: Containers
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Provenance

Sale, Sotheby’s, New York, May 26, 1978, lot 49. Purchased in New York, by Peter David Joralemon, New York, by 2008 (inv. no. PCV193); given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2008
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Bibliography

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

Elizabeth Kennedy Easby and John F. Scott, Before Cortés, Sculpture of Middle America: A Centennial Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from September 30, 1970 through January 3, 1971, exh. cat. (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1970), 279, no. 254, ill.

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

Additional information

Object/Work type

utilitarian objects, vases

Subject

beards

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