Vessel in the Shape of Cocijo, God of Rain | Yale University Art Gallery

A.D. 200–800

Medium: Ceramic with pigment
Dimensions: 9 5/8 × 5 1/2 × 4 7/8 in. (24.448 × 13.97 × 12.383 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Peter David Joralemon, B.A. 1969, M.Phil. 1974
Accession Number: 2017.14.20
Geography: Oaxaca, Mexico
Culture: Mexico, Oaxaca, Zapotec
Period: Early Classic Period
Classification: Containers
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Provenance

Robert and Marianne Huber, Dixon, Illinois, by the mid- 1990s. Sold to Peter David Joralemon, New York; lent to the Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, 1999-2008; gift to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2017
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Bibliography

"Acquisitions July 1, 2016–June 30, 2017," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2017), 13

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

Additional information

Object/Work type

human figures (visual works), mythology, utilitarian objects, vessels

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