Ball Court Model

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Ball Court Model

Mexico, Nayarit, 200 BCE–500 CE

Ceramics

Slip-painted ceramic and pigments

6 × 8 1/2 × 13 1/2 in. (15.24 × 21.59 × 34.29 cm)

The Proctor Stafford Collection, purchased with funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. Allan C. Balch (M.86.296.34)

Art of the Ancient Americas

Not currently on public view

Bibliography

Mexico en el Mundo de las Colecciones de Arte: Mesoamerica. Vol.2. Mexico: Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores, 1994.
Fuente, Beatriz de la, Leticia Staines Cicero, and María Teresa Uriarte. La Escultura Prehispánica de Mesoamérica. Milan: Jaca Book, 2003.

Mexico en el Mundo de las Colecciones de Arte: Mesoamerica. Vol.2. Mexico: Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores, 1994.
Fuente, Beatriz de la, Leticia Staines Cicero, and María Teresa Uriarte. La Escultura Prehispánica de Mesoamérica. Milan: Jaca Book, 2003.
Von Winning, Hasso, and Olga Hammer. Anecdotal Sculpture of Ancient West Mexico. Los Angeles: Ethnic Arts Council of Los Angeles, 1972.
Kan, Michael, Meighan, Clement, Nicholson, H.B. and Rexford Stead. Sculpture of Ancient West Mexico: Nayarit, Jalisco, Colima. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1970.
Whittington, E. Michael, ed. The Sport of Life and Death: The Mesoamerican Ballgame. New York: Thames and Hudson, 2001.
Pillsbury, Joanne. Design for Eternity: Architectural Models from the Ancient Americas. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2015.

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