Vessel in the Shape of an Eagle Artist: Unknown

1250–1521

Art of the Ancient Americas

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

Ceramic with pigment

Dimensions

9 1/2 × 8 × 7 1/2 in. (24.13 × 20.32 × 19.05 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Theodore N. Kaplan and Henry Tobin

Accession Number

2016.148.1

Geography

Puebla, Mexico

Culture

Mexico, Cholula, Mixtec or Aztec

Period

Late Postclassic Period

Classification

Containers

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Provenance
Louis Bryant, prior to 1920s, purchased for Cincinnati Society of Natural History by lilly Fleishmann, transfer to Cincinnati Art Museum; Garth Antiquities Auction Gallery, Delaware, Ohio May 14, 1994 (lot #142);, Purchased from The Lands Beyond, New York, December 1994, The Lands Beyond, NY, (#4545); Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven Conn.
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).
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

vessels

Subject

eagles (birds)

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