Bowl with Aquatic Animals Artist: Unknown

A.D. 800–1500

Art of the Ancient Americas

Not on view
Medium

Ceramic with pigment

Dimensions

7.62 × 13.34 cm (3 × 5 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

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

Accession Number

2017.14.31

Geography

Veracruz, Mexico

Culture

Mexico, Central Veracruz, Cerro Montoso Style

Period

Terminal Classic to Late Postclassic Period

Classification

Containers

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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.
This work appears on our "Antiquities and Archaeological Material with Provenance Documentation Gaps" page.
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).
  • Hasso Von Winning, Pre-Columbian Art of Mexico and Central America (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1968), 208, no. 279/280.
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

animal art, bowls (vessels), utilitarian objects

Subject

birds (animals)

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