Litter with Bearers Maker: Unknown

100 B.C.–A.D. 250

Art of the Ancient Americas

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center

A revered individual is here shown helped along on his journey of death in a palaquin bourne by four men.

Medium

Ceramic

Dimensions

16.5 × 14 cm (6 1/2 × 5 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of the Olsen Foundation

Accession Number

1958.15.19

Geography

Mexico

Culture

West Mexico, Colima

Period

Protoclassic Period

Classification

Sculpture

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Alfred Stendahl Gallery, Los Angeles, March 1, 1957; Fred H. Olsen (1891–1986), and Florence Quittenton Olsen, Guilford, Conn.; gift in 1958 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography

  • Handbook of the Collections, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 313, ill.
  • George A. Kubler, ed., Pre-Columbian Art of Mexico and Central America (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1986), 28, 160, no. 351, color pl. 9.
  • Hasso Von Winning and Olga Hammer, Ancecdotal Sculpture of Ancient West Mexico, exh. cat. (Los Angeles: Ethnic Arts Council of Los Angeles, 1972), 89, no. 158, ill.

Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

funerary art, human figures (visual works), sculptures

Subject

noses

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