Vessel in the Shape of an Eagle | Yale University Art Gallery

1250–1521

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," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2017), 16

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

Additional information

Object/Work type

vessels

Subject

eagles (birds)

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