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

Disclaimer

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Provenance
ex-collection: Daniel M. Friedenberg, Greenwich, CT, acquired prior to 1986
Bibliography
  • "Acquisitions July 1, 2017–June 30, 2018," https://artgallery.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/bulletin/Pub-Bull-acquisitions-2018.pdf (accessed December 1, 2018).
  • 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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