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Effigy-Head Brazier500–200 BCE

Not on view
Ceramic effigy vessel in the form of a cylindrical human head with modeled facial features and a flared, hat-like rim, unglazed sandy tan clay

Unknown, Effigy-Head Brazier, 500–200 BCE, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Constance McCormick Fearing, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Title
Effigy-Head Brazier
Culture
Zapotec
Place Made
Mexico, Oaxaca, Zapotec
Date Made
500–200 BCE
Medium
Ceramic
Dimensions
Diameter: 7 in. (17.78 cm) Height: 8 1/2 in. (21.59 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Constance McCormick Fearing
Accession Number
AC1992.134.27
Classification
Ceramics
Collecting Area
Art of the Ancient Americas
Curatorial Notes

Though the ceramic body is the typical grayware from Oaxaca, the face on this brazier includes traits that resemble Olmec features from the distant Gulf Coast.

2008

Selected Bibliography
  • Berrin, Kathleen, and Virginia M. Fields, eds. Olmec: Colossal Masterworks of Ancient Mexico. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010.

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