Coiled Serpent | Yale University Art Gallery

A.D. 1200–1521

Medium: Basalt
Dimensions: 11 3/4 in. (29.85 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Peter David Joralemon, B.A. 1969, M.Phil. 1974
Accession Number: 2018.12.31
Geography: Mexico
Culture: Mexico, Aztec
Period: Late Postclassic Period
Classification: Sculpture
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Provenance

ex-collection, Daniel M. Friedenberg, Greenwich, CT acquired prior to 1986.
Acquired from Sotheby's, New York, May 15, 2003, lot 310

Bibliography

"Acquisitions July 1, 2017–June 30, 2018," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin: Online Supplement (accessed December 1, 2018), 12

Sotheby's, New York, Arts of Africa, Oceania and The Americas, sale cat. (May 15, 2003), 197, no. 310

Hasso Von Winning, The John-Platt Collection of Pre-Columbian Art (Charlottesville, Va.: University of Virginia, 1986), 65, fig. 121

Object copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

animal art, sculptures

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