Xantil (Deity Censer) | Yale University Art Gallery

1250–1521

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

Medium: Ceramic with pigment
Dimensions: 38.74 × 23.18 × 17.78 cm (15 1/4 × 9 1/8 × 7 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Peter David Joralemon, B.A. 1969, M.Phil 1974
Accession Number: 2017.14.35
Geography: Puebla, Mexico
Culture: Mexico, Puebla, Tlaxcala, or Oaxaca, Nahua or Mixtec
Period: Late Postclassic Period
Classification: Sculpture
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Provenance

Acquired from California Private Collector, 1980s
Ex-collection California Private Collector

Bibliography

"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).

Object copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

censers, ceremonial objects, mythology

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