Conch shell with incised designs | Yale University Art Gallery

A.D. 250–900

Not on view

Medium: Conch shell
Dimensions: 27.305 × 10.795 cm (10 3/4 × 4 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Peter David Joralemon, B.A. 1969, M.Phil 1974
Accession Number: 2010.228.3
Geography: Guatemala, or Mexico
Culture: Mexico or Guatemala, Maya
Period: Early Classic to Late Classic Period
Classification: Sculpture
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Provenance

Ex Collection:
James Muirden, New Haven, purchased in the early 1970s?
Acquired from James Muirden New Haven in 2006 via The Lands Beyond, New York.

Bibliography

"Acquisitions," https://artgallery.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/Pub_Bull_acquisitions_2011.pdf (accessed March 1, 2012).

Object copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

utilitarian objects

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