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Art of the Ancient Americas
Photo credit: Yale University Art Gallery
Artist: Unknown
Plate
1250–1521
Ceramic with pigment
2.54 × 25.4 cm (1 × 10 in.)
Gift of Peter David Joralemon, B.A. 1969, M.Phil 1974
2017.14.24
Geography:
Puebla, Mexico
Status:
On view
Culture:
Mexico, Puebla or Tlaxcala, Nahua
Period:
Late Postclassic Period
Classification:
Containers - Ceramics
Provenance:
ex-collection: Arthur Seiff
Acquired from Sotheby's New York, 11/21/88, lot 451.
Bibliography:
Samuel Y Edgerton, Olmec, Maya, Teotihuacan, Aztec-Pre-Columbian Art of Mesoamerica, exh. cat. (Northhampton, Mass.: Smith College Museum of Art, 1986), no. 99.
Samuel Y Edgerton, The Art of Mesoamerica: Before Columbus, exh. cat. (Willamstown, Mass: Williams College Museum of Art, 1993), no. 57.
“Acquisitions July 1, 2016–June 30, 2017,” https://artgallery.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/bulletin/Pub-Bull-acquisitions-2017.pdf (accessed December 1, 2017).
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 such records is ongoing.
