Vessel in the Shape of a Conch Shell | Yale University Art Gallery

300 B.C.–A.D. 300

Medium: Ceramic
Dimensions: 8 7/16 × 8 3/4 × 9 1/16 in. (21.5 × 22.2 × 23 cm)
Credit Line: Stephen Carlton Clark, B.A. 1903, Fund
Accession Number: 1989.96.2
Geography: Mexico
Culture: Mexico, Colima, Comala Style
Period: Protoclassic Period
Classification: Containers
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Provenance

Sotheby's 1989, sale #5937, #417

Bibliography

Richard F. Townsend, ed., Ancient West Mexico: Art and Archaeology of the Unknown Past, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1998),

Helen Pollard, "Recent Research in West Mexican Archaeology," Journal of Archeological Research 5 (1997), 345–84

Michael Kan, Clement W. Meighan, and Henry B. Nicholson, Sculpture of Ancient West Mexico: Nayarit, Jalisco, Colima, 2, exh. cat. (Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1989),

Jacki Gallagher, Companions of the Dead: Tomb Sculpture from Ancient West Mexico, exh. cat. (Los Angeles: Fowler Museum at UCLA, 1983),

Isabel Kelly, "Seven Colima Tombs: An Interpretation of Ceramic Content," Studies in Ancient Mesoamerica 3 (1978), 1–26

Betty Bell, ed., The Archaeology of West Mexico (Ajijic, Mexico: West Mexican Society for Advanced Study, 1974),

Peter T. Furst, West Mexican Art: Secular or Sacred? The Iconography of Middle American Sculpture (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1973), 98–133

Salvador Toscano and Federico Canessi, Arte Precolombino del Occidente de Mexico (Mexico City: Dirección General de Educación Extra-Escolar y Estética, 1946),

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Object/Work type

utilitarian objects, vessels

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