Vessel in the Shape of a Skull | Yale University Art Gallery

1200–1521

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

Medium: Ceramic with pigment
Dimensions: 4 1/8 × 3 5/8 × 4 3/4 in. (10.48 × 9.21 × 12.07 cm)
base diameter: 3 5/8 in. (9.21 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Peter David Joralemon, B.A. 1969, M.Phil 1974
Accession Number: 2017.14.25
Geography: Mexico
Culture: Mexico, southern Puebla, Coatlalpanec culture
Period: Late Postclassic Period
Classification: Containers
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Provenance

Acquired from David Bramhall, New York, early 1980s.

Bibliography

"Acquisitions July 1, 2016–June 30, 2017," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (December 1, 2017), 16

Samuel Y Edgerton, The Art of Mesoamerica: Before Columbus, exh. cat. (Willamstown, Mass: Williams College Museum of Art, 1993), no. 55

Object copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

human figures (visual works), utilitarian objects, vessels

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