Currently not on view
Maskette,
200 BCE–300 CE
(Pre-?) Teotihuacán
Late Formative Period to Early Classic Period
2012-102
Information
Title
Maskette
Dates
200 BCE–300 CE
Medium
Blue-green steatite
Dimensions
h. 14 cm., w. 10.2 cm., d. 6 cm. (5 1/2 x 4 x 2 3/8 in.)
with mount: 18.7 x 10.2 x 7.6 cm. (7 3/8 x 4 x 3 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund
Object Number
2012-102
Place Made
North America, Mexico, Said to have been found in the Valley of Mexico
Culture
Period
Type
Materials
Subject
- Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery and Alfred Stendhal, Pre-Columbian Art: an Exhibition from the Collection of Alfred Stendhal of Los Angeles, California (Miami: Lowe Gallery of the University of Miami, 1957)., cover (illus.)
- Hasso Von Winning and Alfred Stendahl, Pre-Columbian Art of Mexico and Central America, (New York: Abrams, 1968), fig. 226
- The John-Platt Collection of Pre-Columbian Art (Charlottesville, The University of Virginia Art Museum, 1986). , ca. no. 59 (illus.)
- Sotheby's. Arts of Africa, Oceania & The Americas, sale code 7902 KAMWAMARS. 15 May 2003, New York., lot 247 (illus.)
- "Acquisitions of the Princeton University Art Museum 2012," Record of the Princeton University Art Museum 71/72 (2012-13): p. 105-132., p. 123 (illus.)
