Hand Holding a Small Vessel (fragment) | Yale University Art Gallery

ca. 900–300 B.C.E.

Medium: Terracotta
Dimensions: 3 × 4 3/4 × 3 1/4 in. (7.62 × 12.07 × 8.26 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of SusAnna and Joel B. Grae
Accession Number: 2010.6.123
Geography: Nigeria
Culture: Nok
Period: 4th–10th century B.C.
Classification: Sculpture
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Provenance

With Amyas Naegele, New York, by June 2005; sold to SusAnna Grae and Joel B. Grae, New York, June 22, 2005; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2010
This work appears on our "Antiquities and Archaeological Material with Provenance Documentation Gaps" page.

Bibliography

"Acquisitions," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin: Online Supplement (accessed 2012), 3-4, ill

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

Additional information

Object/Work type

fragments

Subject

hands (animal or human component)

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