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Art of the Ancient Americas
Artist: Unknown
Tecomate (Gourd-Shaped Bowl) with “Olmec Dragon” Design
1200–400 B.C.
Ceramic
7 cm (2 3/4 in.)
7 × 9 cm (2 3/4 × 3 9/16 in.)
7 × 9 cm (2 3/4 × 3 9/16 in.)
Gift of Peter David Joralemon, B.A. 1969, M.Phil 1974, in memory of Terry F. Green., B.A. 1969
1989.40.1
Geography:
Guatemala
or geography Mexico
Status:
On view
Culture:
Mexico or Guatemala, Olmec
Period:
Early Formative to Middle Formative Period
Classification:
Containers - Ceramics
Provenance:
Arthur N. Seiff, New York, by 1965; sale, Sotheby’s, New York, May 16, 1989, lot 77; sold to Judith Small Nash (dealer), New York, May 16, 1989; sold to Peter David Joralemon, New York, June 7, 1989; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1989
Bibliography:
“Acquisitions 1989,” Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (1990): 123, ill.
Regan Huff, “A Pot, A Motif, and Formative Mexico,” Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (1995–96): 24, fig. 1.
Handbook of the Collections, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 313, ill.
Sotheby’s, New York, Arthur N. Seiff Collection, sale cat. (May 16, 1989), lot 77.
Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.