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Bottle with a Fish

Bottle with a Fish

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Bottle with a Fish
Artist
CultureOlmec
Titles
  • Bottle with a Fish
Date1500–300 BC
PlaceLas Bocas, Puebla, Mexico
MediumEarthenware with slip
DimensionsOverall: 10 3/8 × 5 3/4 in. (26.4 × 14.6 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Alice Pratt Brown Museum Fund
Object number90.257
Not on view

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Department
Art of the Indigenous Americas
Object Type
Provenance[Shango Galleries, Dallas, until 1990]; purchased by MFAH, 1990.

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