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Bat God Urn

Zapotec, 2001-300

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Zapotec

Bat God Urn

Zapotec, 2001-300

Physical Qualities Ceramic, 14 x 7 1/16 x 5 7/8 in. (35.6 x 18 x 15 cm.)
Credit Line Purchase with exchange funds from Gift of Alan Wurtzburger
Object Number 1967.52
BMA by exchange, 1967; Everett Rassiga Gallery, New York
Wurtzburger Traveling
BMA News, Vol. XXX, No. 1-2, 1968, ill. p. 37.
G. H. S. Bushnell and Adrian Digby, "Ancient American Pottery, NY: Pitman, no.24., 1955.
Irene Nicholson, "Mexican and Central American Mythology," NY: Paul Hamlyn, 1967.
Jill and Peter Furst, "Pre-Columbian Art of Mexico," NY: Abbeville Press, 1986.
"Art Dealer Braced by Nerves of Steel, Colleagues Say," St. Louis Post Dispatch, Sunday, May 3, 1987.

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