The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of March 20, 2023

Funerary Urn

AD 350–500

Mexico, Oaxaca, Zapotec Culture

Terracotta

Overall: 38.3 x 38.5 x 25.3 cm (15 1/16 x 15 3/16 x 9 15/16 in.)

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1944.78

Location

not on view

Provenance
?-1944
John Wise, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
1944-
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Citations
Munro, Eleanor C. The Golden Encyclopedia of Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, and Ornament, from Prehistoric Times to the Twentieth Century. New York: Golden Press, 1961.
Boos, Frank. The Ceramic Sculptures of Ancient Oaxaca. South Brunswick [N.J.]: A.S. Barnes, 1966. p. 74
Glubok, Shirley, Gerard Nook, and Alfred H. Tamarin. The Art of Ancient Mexico. New York: Harper & Row, 1968. p. 38
Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies. FAMSI research materials: Explore Mesoamerica. [Crystal River, Fla.]: [FAMSI], 1994. Cat. No. CMA 44.78 research.famsi.org
Sellen, Adam T. "Storm-God Impersonators from Ancient Oaxaca" Ancient Mesoamerica 13 (2002). p. 9, fig. 5
Sellen, Adam T. El cielo compartido: deidades y ancestros en las vasijas efigie zapotecas. Mérida, Yuc: UNAM, Centro Peninsular en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales, 2007. p. 123, 230, 244, 245
Exhibition history

Art of the Americas. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 9, 1945-January 6, 1946).

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