Bowl with a Dragon's Head in Profile

Artist: Unknown

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1500–1300 B.C.

Art of the Ancient Americas

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Medium

Ceramic with traces of cinnabar

Dimensions

2 1/2 × 3 7/8 in. (6.35 × 9.84 cm)

Credit Line

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

Accession Number

2018.173.9

Geography

Puebla, Mexico

Culture

Mexico, Puebla, Las Bocas, Olmec

Period

Early Formative, Ayotla phase

Classification

Containers

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Ex Collection: Arte Primitivo, New York, September 29, 2015
Hilda Tijou, California, acquired 1960s and prior, by descent to her granddaughter.
Bibliography
  • Michael D. Coe, The Jaguar's Children: Pre-Classic Central Mexico (Greenwich, Conn.: Museum of Primitive Art, 1965), 31, fig. 30
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

bowls (vessels), mythology, utilitarian objects

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