Vessel in the Form of a Dog

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Vessel in the Form of a Dog

Mexico, Basin of Mexico, Teotihuacan, Teotihuacan, 400–500 CE
Ceramics
Thin Orange ceramic
3 × 5 × 6 in. (7.62 × 12.7 × 15.24 cm)
Gift of Constance McCormick Fearing (AC1998.209.18)
Not currently on public view

Bibliography

  • Selections from the Pre-Columbian Collection of Constance McCormick Fearing. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1967.

  • Fields, Virginia M. and Dorie Reents-Budet. Lords of Creation: The Origins of Sacred Maya Kingship. London: Scala Publishers Limited; LACMA, 2005.