Head Vessel

Artist: Unknown

Image not available

300 B.C.–A.D. 250

Art of the Ancient Americas

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Medium

Ceramic with red slip

Dimensions

6 1/2 in. (16.51 cm)

Credit Line

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

Accession Number

2018.12.30

Geography

Mexico

Culture

Mexico, Colima, Comala Style

Period

Protoclassic Period

Classification

Containers

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Provenance
Acquired by Daniel M. Friedenberg, Greenwich, Conn., by about 1986. Peter David Joralemon, New York, by 2018; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2018
This work appears on our "Antiquities and Archaeological Material with Provenance Documentation Gaps" page.
Bibliography
  • "Acquisitions July 1, 2017–June 30, 2018," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin: Online Supplement (accessed December 1, 2018), 12
  • Hasso Von Winning, The John-Platt Collection of Pre-Columbian Art (Charlottesville, Va.: University of Virginia, 1986), 44, fig. 37
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

human figures (visual works), mythology, utilitarian objects, vessels

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