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Artist: Unknown

Tripod Vessel in the Shape of a Jaguar

1200–1400

Polychrome ceramic and red-brown fabric

32.5 × 25 × 11.8 cm (12 13/16 × 9 13/16 × 4 5/8 in.)
Gift of Gail Snow Cain and Christopher Forrest Snow, in memory of their uncle, Gilles A. Lesieur, B.Arch. 1951
1989.95.1
Geography: 
Costa Rica
Status: 
By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Culture: 
Costa Rica, Nicoya Peninsula, Period VI
Classification: 
Containers - Ceramics
Provenance: 

Purchased by Mr. Lesieur at Galeria de los Arcos, San Juan PR.

Bibliography: 

“Acquisitions 1989,” Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (1990): 124, ill.

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.