Art of the Ancient Americas
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Artist: Unknown

Bowl with Dragon’s Head in Profile

1500–900 B.C.

Ceramic with pigment

2 1/2 × 4 5/8 in. (6.4 × 11.7 cm)
Gift of Peter David Joralemon, B.A. 1969, M.Phil. 1974
2018.173.7
Geography: 
Guatemala
or geography Mexico
Status: 
On view
Culture: 
Mexico or Guatemala, Olmec
Period: 
Early Formative
Classification: 
Containers - Ceramics
Provenance: 

Acquired from Fine Arts of Ancient Lands, New York, in the late 1970s-early 1980s

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