Vessel of a Male Figure
Casas Grandes · 1280–1450
Provenance
Ownership history
- Jay C. Leff, Uniontown, PA, by 1972 [Allentown 1972, cat. 131]; sold, Sotheby’s, May 31, 1975, lot 387, to Crouch Gallery, Macomb, IL; sold to Patricia Brett Erens, Chicago, c. 1975 [invoice SWP-137 and correspondence and documentation from Patricia Brett Erens, Oct. 13, 2020; copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2021.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA, <em>Pre–Columbian Art of Mesoamerica from the Collection of Jay C. Leff</em>, Feb. 12–Apr. 2, 1972, cat. 131, fig. 131, pp. 54–55.
Literature
Published references
- <em>Pre-Columbian Art of Mesoamerica from the Collection of Jay C. Leff</em>, exh. cat. (Allentown, PA: Allentown Art Museum, 1972), 54-55, cat. 131, fig. 131 (ill.).
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