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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 14, 2019 | Sotheby's | New York | Art of Africa, Oceania and the Americas | 143 | $****** - ****** | OLMEC INCISED BOWL OF A SUPERNATURAL, MORELOS REGION EARLY PRECLASSIC |
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11.4 cm (4.5 in)
D. Daniel Michel, Chicago, acquired in 1962 (inventory no. 62:088)
Ancient Art of the New World, New York, acquired from the above
American Private Collection, acquired in 1991
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Michael D. Coe, The Jaguar's Children: Pre-Classic Central Mexico, New York, 1965, fig. 19
Leo Rosshandler, Man-Eaters and Pretty Ladies: Early Art in Central Mexico from the Gulf to the Pacific, 1500 BC-500 AD, Montreal, 1971, p. 52, cat. no. 45
Peter David Joralemon, "A Study of Olmec Iconography", in Studies in Pre-Columbian Art and Archaeology, 7, Washington, D. C., 1971, fig. 236
Everett McNear, High Culture in the Americas Before 1500, Chicago, 1982, p. 2, cat. no. 4.
Peter David Joralemon, "Bowl with Incised Were-Jaguar Profiles," in Elizabeth P. Benson and Beatriz de la Fuente, eds., Olmec Art of Ancient Mexico, Washington, D.C., 1996, p. 203, fig. 41
Peter David Joralemon, "An Incised Olmec Bowl from Tlapacoya in the Barbier-Mueller Collection," in Arts and Cultures, Musée Barbier-Mueller, Geneva, 2001, no. 2, fig. 1b
The Museum of Primitive Art, New York, The Jaguar's Children: Pre-Classic Central Mexico, February 17-May 5, 1965
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Man-Eaters and Pretty Ladies: Early Art in Central Mexico from the Gulf to the Pacific: 1500 B.C. to 500 A.D., January 15-March 8, 1971
The Arts Club of Chicago, High Culture in the Americas Before 1500, November 15-December 31, 1982
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., Olmec Art of Ancient Mexico, June 30-October 20, 1996
