Brazier with a Modeled Face
- Culture
- Zapotec
- Date
- 400–200 BCE
- Material
- Ceramic
- Classification
- Ceramics, containers
- Collection
- Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas
- Current Location
- On View, Gallery 113
- Dimensions
- 10 1/2 x 7 5/8 in. (26.7 x 19.4 cm)
wall thickness: 3/8 in. (1 cm) - Credit Line
- Gift of Morton D. May
- Rights
- Public Domain
- Object Number
- 178:1979
Provenance
by 1967 -
Howard Leigh (1869-1981), Mitla, Oaxaca, Mexico [1]
- 1969
Everett Rassiga Inc., New York, NY, USA
1969 - 1978
Morton D. May (1914-1983), St. Louis, MO, purchased from Everett Rassiga Inc. [2]
1978 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, given by Morton D. May [3]
Notes:
[1] A 1977 publication identifies 178:1979 as in the Leigh Collection [Scott, John F. "Masters and Followers: Preclassic Oaxacan Clay Sculptors," in "Del Arte: Homenaje a Justino Fernández". Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, 1977, note 6, fig. 2]. In an email dated September 8, 2010, Scott writes: "I would have seen it in 1967 in Mitla, where Leigh had a house..." [SLAM document files].
[2] An invoice dated January 28, 1969 from Everett Rassiga Inc. to Morton D. May documents this purchase, listed as "Six Monte Alban Vessels" [with 305:1978, 175:1979, 179:1979, 180:1979, 1226:1983]; a shipping record dated March 7, 1969 identifies the objects included in this sale [May Archives, Saint Louis Art Museum].
[3] A letter dated July 5, 1979 from Morton D. May to James N. Wood, director of the Saint Louis Art Museum, includes the offer of this object as part of a larger donation [SLAM document files]. Minutes of the Acquisitions Committee of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, October 10, 1979.
Howard Leigh (1869-1981), Mitla, Oaxaca, Mexico [1]
- 1969
Everett Rassiga Inc., New York, NY, USA
1969 - 1978
Morton D. May (1914-1983), St. Louis, MO, purchased from Everett Rassiga Inc. [2]
1978 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, given by Morton D. May [3]
Notes:
[1] A 1977 publication identifies 178:1979 as in the Leigh Collection [Scott, John F. "Masters and Followers: Preclassic Oaxacan Clay Sculptors," in "Del Arte: Homenaje a Justino Fernández". Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, 1977, note 6, fig. 2]. In an email dated September 8, 2010, Scott writes: "I would have seen it in 1967 in Mitla, where Leigh had a house..." [SLAM document files].
[2] An invoice dated January 28, 1969 from Everett Rassiga Inc. to Morton D. May documents this purchase, listed as "Six Monte Alban Vessels" [with 305:1978, 175:1979, 179:1979, 180:1979, 1226:1983]; a shipping record dated March 7, 1969 identifies the objects included in this sale [May Archives, Saint Louis Art Museum].
[3] A letter dated July 5, 1979 from Morton D. May to James N. Wood, director of the Saint Louis Art Museum, includes the offer of this object as part of a larger donation [SLAM document files]. Minutes of the Acquisitions Committee of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, October 10, 1979.
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