Incense Burner

1200–1521

Ceramic

11.4 × 20.3 cm (4 1/2 × 8 in.)

Gift of Mr and Mrs Fred Olsen

1961.43.3

Geography:

Mexico

Status:

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center

Culture:

Mexico, Oaxaca or Puebla, Mixtec

Period:

Late Postclassic Period

Classification:

Containers - Ceramics

Provenance:

Fred H. Olsen (1891–1986), and Florence Quittenton Olsen, Guilford, Conn.; gift in 1961 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography:

George A. Kubler, ed., Pre-Columbian Art of Mexico and Central America (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1986), 111, 266, no. 242, fig. 110.

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