Mask

CultureOlmec
Titles
  • Mask
Date1500–300 BC
MediumJade
DimensionsOverall: 5 7/8 × 5 3/8 in. (15 × 13.7 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Alfred C. Glassell, Jr. Accessions Endowment Fund
Object number2012.380
Current Location
The Caroline Wiess Law Building
205M Wiess Gallery
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ProvenanceJay C. Leff (1925–2000), Uniontown, PA, by the mid 1960s; Private collection, USA; [Ancient Art of the New World, New York, until 2012]; purchased by MFAH, 2012.
Exhibition HistoryPrecolumbian Art of Mesoamerica from the Collection of Jay C. Leff, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania, February 13 - April 2, 1972

Ancient Art of Middle America, Selections from the Jay C. Leff Collection, Huntington Galleries, February 17 - June 9, 1974

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front of object
200–1600 AD
Gold
2001.1045.A,.B
Currency
c. 1027–256 BC
Bronze
81.64.6
Currency
c. 1027–256 BC
Bronze
81.64.1
Currency
c. 1027–256 BC
Bronze
81.64.3
Currency
c. 1027–256 BC
Bronze
81.64.2
Currency
c. 1027–256 BC
Bronze
81.64.5
Currency
c. 1027–256 BC
Bronze
81.64.4
Joseph E. Renier
1941
Bronze
41.12
Earwin Frederick Springweiler
1941
Bronze
41.30