On view
Art of the Ancient Americas
Bowl with an incised frog design,
1500–1000 BCE
Xochipala
Early Formative Period
2016-1366
Information
Title
Bowl with an incised frog design
Dates
1500–1000 BCE
Medium
Greenstone
Dimensions
h. 7.3, diam. 24.8 cm (2 7/8 × 9 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Gillett G. Griffin
Object Number
2016-1366
Place Made
North America, Mexico, Guerrero, Central Mexico, Xochipala
Culture
Period
Materials
Subject
[Teochita Inc., owned by Francis Pratt (1913-2003)]; purchased on April 20, 1971, by Gillett G. Griffin (1928-2016), Princeton, NJ [1]; bequest to the Princeton University Art Museum, 2016. [1] According to dated invoice.
- Carlo T. E. Gay, Xochipala: The Beginnings of Olmec Art (Princeton, The Princeton University Art Museum, 1972)., fig. 38 (illus.)
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"Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1971," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University, 31 no. 1 (1972): p. 20-32.
, p. 20 - Alison Bailey Kennedy, "Ecce Bufo: The Toad in Nature and in Olmec Iconography," Current anthropology 23, no. 3 (1982): p. 273-290., figs. 58–59, pp. 273–209 (illus.)
