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Iguana

Iguana

Public Domain

Iguana
CultureClassic Veracruz
Titles
  • Iguana
Date600–900 AD
PlaceMexico
MediumEarthenware with slip
Dimensions13 3/8 × 22 3/4 × 7 7/16 in. (34 × 57.8 × 18.9 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Alfred C. Glassell, Jr.
Object number2005.365
Current Location
The Caroline Wiess Law Building
205M Wiess Gallery
On view

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Department
Art of the Indigenous Americas, Glassell Collection
Object Type
ProvenanceRobert Huber and Marianne Huber, Dixon, Illinois, from 1970; [Sotheby's, New York, November 24, 1997, Pre-Columbian Art Sale 7057, Lot 337]; […]; [The Merrin Gallery, New York, 2005]; purchased by MFAH, 2005.
Exhibition History“Fangs, Feathers, and Fins: Sacred Creatures in Ancient American Art,” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 15, 2014–March 22, 2015.
Published References Tribal Arts: Le Monde de L'Art Tribal, Vol. II, No. 4, Winter, 1995-96, page 15. Thermoluminescence analysis by Oxford Authentication Ltd. Report dated July 2005.

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