Vessel with attached base, handles, and two molded jaguar heads
Vessel with attached base, handles, and two molded jaguar heads
Vessel with attached base, handles, and two molded jaguar heads
Vessel with attached base, handles, and two molded jaguar heads
Vessel with attached base, handles, and two molded jaguar heads
Vessel with attached base, handles, and two molded jaguar heads

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Art of the Ancient Americas

Vessel with attached base, handles, and two molded jaguar heads,

1200–1550

Eastern Nahua
Late Postclassic Period
2016-1187

Information

Title
Vessel with attached base, handles, and two molded jaguar heads
Dates

1200–1550

Medium
Ceramic with polychrome
Dimensions
12 × 22.2 × 16 cm (4 3/4 × 8 3/4 × 6 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Gillett G. Griffin
Object Number
2016-1187
Place Made

North America, Mexico, possibly Michoacan, Central Mexico

Culture
Nahua
Period
Postclassic, Late Postclassic
Type
vessels (containers), ceramics
Materials
polychrome, ceramic
Subject
figures (representations), jaguars

Martinez; purchased on December 16, 1969, by Gillett G. Griffin (1928-2016), Princeton, NJ [1]; bequest to the Princeton University Art Museum, 2006. [1] According to dated notebook entry.

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