Plumbateware Jar with Aged Deity

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CultureMaya

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Plumbateware Jar with Aged Deity

Date900–1250 AD

Possible placeSouthwestern, Guatemala

MediumEarthenware with slip

DimensionsOverall: 7 5/16 × 5 × 5 5/8 in. (18.6 × 12.7 × 14.3 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Agnes Cullen Arnold Endowment Fund

Object number89.32

Current Location

The Caroline Wiess Law Building

205M Wiess Gallery

On view

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Department

Art of the Indigenous Americas

Object Type

CERAMICS

Provenance[Alphonse Jax, New York, until 1989]; purchased by MFAH, 1989.

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