Bowl with Aquatic Animals

A.D. 800–1500

Ceramic with pigment

7.62 × 13.34 cm (3 × 5 1/4 in.)

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

2017.14.31

Geography:

Made in Veracruz, Mexico

Culture:

Mexico, Central Veracruz, Cerro Montoso Style

Period:

Terminal Classic to Late Postclassic Period

Classification:

Containers - Ceramics

Provenance:

David Howell Bramhall (d. 2012), New York, sold to Peter David Joralemon,1980s; gift to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2017.

Bibliography:

Hasso Von Winning, Pre-Columbian Art of Mexico and Central America (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1968), 208, no. 279/280.

“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).

This work appears on our "Antiquities and Archaeological Material with Provenance Documentation Gaps" page.

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