Urn of a Seated Figure Wearing a Buccal Mask | Yale University Art Gallery

A.D. 250–900

Medium: Grey slipped ceramic
Dimensions: 7 3/4 × 6 1/4 × 3 7/8 in. (19.69 × 15.93 × 9.91 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Peter David Joralemon, B.A. 1969, M.Phil 1974
Accession Number: 2017.14.9
Geography: Mexico
Culture: Mexico, Zapotec
Period: Early Classic to Late Classic Period
Classification: Sculpture
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Provenance

Acquired from a European Private Collector in the early 1980s.

Bibliography

Sotheby's France, Paris, Le Soleil de Nuit : Trésors Précolombiens d‘une Grande Collection Française, sale cat. (October 30, 2019), 58–59, fig. lot 21.

"Acquisitions July 1, 2016–June 30, 2017," https://artgallery.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/bulletin/Pub-Bull-acquisitions-2017.pdf (accessed December 1, 2017).

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Additional information

Object/Work type

human figures (visual works), urns, utilitarian objects

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