Low Bowl | Yale University Art Gallery

1500–1300 B.C.

Medium: Ceramic with black slip and traces of red
Dimensions: 2 1/4 × 5 in. (5.7 × 12.7 cm)
Credit Line: Gift in memory of Michael D. Coe, professor and mentor at Yale and lifelong friend
Accession Number: 2020.27.1
Geography: Guatemala, or Mexico
Culture: Guatemala or Mexico, Olmec
Period: Early Formative
Classification: Containers
Disclaimer: Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of records is ongoing.

Provenance

Ex Collection: Jay C. Leff, Uniontown, PA 1965
James Economos, Scottsdale, AZ; Peter G. Wray, Scottsdale, AZ; Richard Manoogian, Detroit, MI.
Acquired from Sotheby's New York, 12/10/90, Lot 352.

Bibliography

Michael D. Coe, The Jaguar's Children: Pre-Classic Central Mexico (Greenwich, Conn.: Museum of Primitive Art, 1965), 31, no. 29

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

Additional information

Object/Work type

bowls (vessels), utilitarian objects

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