Vessel in the Shape of a Monkey Skull | Yale University Art Gallery

A.D. 600–900

Medium: Ceramic with red pigment
Dimensions: 8 1/2 × 6 5/16 × 5 5/8 in. (21.59 × 16 × 14.3 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Peter David Joralemon, B.A. 1969, M.Phil. 1974
Accession Number: 2015.2.15
Culture: Maya
Period: Late Classic Period
Classification: Containers
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Provenance

Acquired from Fine Arts of Ancient Lands, NY in the 1980s

Bibliography

"Acquisitions 2015," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin: Online Supplement (accessed December 1, 2015), 19

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Additional information

Object/Work type

animal art, utilitarian objects, vessels

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