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  • Condor Vessel
Date100–800 AD
MediumEarthenware with slip
DimensionsOverall: 6 3/4 × 8 × 4 1/16 in. (17.1 × 20.3 × 10.3 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Lee Godfrey in honor of his grandchildren, Isabella and Thomas Lee Summers at "One Great Night in November, 2009"
Object number2009.1496
Current Location
The Caroline Wiess Law Building
209M Jones Galleries
On view

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Object Type
ProvenancePrivate collection, Switzerland, 1940s; Private collection, New York; [The Merrin Gallery, Inc., New York, until 2009]; purchased by MFAH, 2009.
Exhibition History“Fangs, Feathers, and Fins: Sacred Creatures in Ancient American Art,” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 15, 2014–March 22, 2015.

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