CultureMaya
Titles
- Ballplayer
Date600–900 AD
Possible placeMexico
Possible placeGuatemala
Possible placeBelize
MediumEarthenware with traces of polychrome pigment
DimensionsOverall: 12 5/8 × 4 1/2 × 3 in. (32.1 × 11.4 × 7.6 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Alfred C. Glassell, Jr. Accessions Endowment Fund
Object number2013.292
Current Location
The Caroline Wiess Law Building
205M Wiess Gallery
On view
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Department
Art of the Indigenous AmericasObject Type
[1] Colorado Collects. Denver: Denver Art Museum, 1985. Page 46, no. 1.
Exhibition History"Ancient Art of Latin America from the Collection of Jay C. Leff," The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, November 22, 1966–March 5,1967.
"Colorado Collects," Denver Art Museum, Denver, August 17–October 6,1985.
“Fangs, Feathers, and Fins: Sacred Creatures in Ancient American Art,” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 15, 2014–March 22, 2015.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
On bottom of foot: GR 189
Cataloguing data may change with further research.
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550–800 AD
Earthenware with traces of polychrome pigment
87.283
Unknown Central and South American
600–900 AD
Earthenware with traces of polychrome pigment
2014.80
Unknown Central and South American
600–900 AD
Earthenware with slip and traces of polychrome pigment
2007.1185
Unknown Central and South American
600–900 AD
Earthenware with traces of polychrome pigment
2013.291
Unknown Central and South American
600–900 AD
Earthenware with traces of polychrome pigment
65.151
Unknown Central and South American
600–900 AD
Earthenware with slip and traces of polychrome pigment
93.389.A,.B
Unknown Central and South American
600–900
Earthenware with traces of polychrome pigment
2015.27
Unknown Central and South American
300–600 AD
Earthenware with traces of polychrome pigment
65.193
Unknown Central and South American
600–900 AD
Earthenware with traces of polychrome pigment
2014.252
Unknown Central and South American
300 BC–300 AD
Earthenware with traces of polychrome pigment
2014.6.A,.B
Unknown Central and South American
150–650 AD
Earthenware with slip and traces of polychrome pigment
97.113.A,.B
Classic Veracruz
500-700
Earthenware with black pitch (chapopote) and traces of polychrome pigment
63.1