Mosaic Disk with a Mythological and Historical Scene by Mixtec
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Mosaic Disk with a Mythological and Historical Scene

Mixtec · 1400–1500

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Possibly Raul Kamfer, Mexico City and New York, by late 1960s [correspondence in curatorial file]; private collector, Belgium [correspondence in curatorial file]. Alphonse Jax, New York, by 1970s [documentation in curatorial file]; sold to the Art Institute, 1997.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Road to Aztlan: Art from Mythic Homeland, May 4, 2001–August 26, 2001.

Literature

Published references

  • Byron Ellsworth Hamann, "Heirlooms and Ruins: High Culture, Mesoamerican Civilization, and the Postclassic Oaxacan Tradition," in After Monte Alban: Transformation and Negotiation in Oaxaca, Mexico, ed. Jeffrey P. Blomster (University Press of Colorado. 2008), pg. 129, fig. 4.4.
  • Richard Townsend with Elizabeth Pope, <em>Indian Art of the Americas at the Art Institute of Chicago</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 2016), 188-189, cat. 154 (ill. and drawing).

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