Paint Palette in the Shape of a Hand Artist: Unknown

A.D. 250–900

Art of the Ancient Americas

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

Conch shell

Dimensions

1 3/4 × 3 1/16 × 8 7/8 in. (4.4 × 7.7 × 22.5 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Peter David Joralemon, B.A. 1969, M.Phil. 1974

Accession Number

2017.14.30

Geography

Guatemala, or Mexico

Culture

Mexico or Guatemala, Maya

Period

Early Classic to Late Classic Period

Classification

Sculpture

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Provenance
David Bramhall (died 2012), New York, 1990s; sold to Peter David Joralemon, New York, 2000s (inv. no. PCS421); given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2017.
This work appears on our "Antiquities and Archaeological Material with Provenance Documentation Gaps" page.
Bibliography
  • "Acquisitions July 1, 2016–June 30, 2017," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2017), 14
  • Elizabeth Kennedy Easby and John F. Scott, Before Cortés, Sculpture of Middle America: A Centennial Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from September 30, 1970 through January 3, 1971, exh. cat. (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1970), 232–33, no. 199, ill
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
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Object/Work type

palettes, utilitarian objects

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