Unknown Central and South American
Duck Vessel

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Artist Unknown Central and South American

CultureOlmec

Titles

Duck Vessel

Date1500–300 BC

PlaceTlatilco, Mexico

MediumEarthenware with slip

DimensionsOverall: 8 7/16 × 8 7/8 × 7 1/16 in. (21.5 × 22.5 × 18 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Cherie and James C. Flores in honor of William S. Flores, Sr. at "One Great Night in November, 2012"

Object number2012.381

Current Location

The Caroline Wiess Law Building

205M Wiess Gallery

On view

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Department

Art of the Indigenous Americas

Object Type

SCULPTURE

ProvenancePrivate collection, Munich and later New York, early 1950s–until d. 1994 [1]; by inheritance to his son, 1994–2012; [Ancient Art of the New World, New York, 2012]; purchased by MFAH, 2012.

[1] Relocated to New York in the late 1960s.
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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