Censer with Human Figure | Yale University Art Gallery

1200–1521

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

Medium: Ceramic with pigment
Dimensions: 5 1/4 × 4 1/2 × 7 1/4 in. (13.335 × 11.43 × 18.415 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Peter David Joralemon, B.A. 1969, M.Phil. 1974
Accession Number: 2016.18.1
Geography: Mexico
Culture: Mexico, southern Puebla, Coatlalpanec culture
Period: Late Postclassic Period
Classification: Containers
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Provenance

Ex Collection David Bramhall, purchased in the late 1960s-early 1970s; Acquired from David Bramhall in the early 2000s.

Bibliography

"Acquisitions July 1, 2015–June 30, 2016," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin: Online Supplement (accessed December 1, 2016), 14

Jane Stevenson Day, Precolumbian Art from the Collection of Paul L. and Alice C. Baker, ed. Robert Yassin, exh. cat. (Tucson, Ariz.: Tucson Museum of Art, 1996),

Object copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

censers, human figures (visual works)

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