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San Antonio Museum of Art, The Nelson A. Rockefeller Mexican Folk Art Collection.
Water Container Support
San Antonio Museum of Art, The Nelson A. Rockefeller Mexican Folk Art Collection.
Contact San Antonio Museum of Art, Registrar Department for rights and reproduction of this image. Photography by Ansen Seale.

Water Container Support

DepartmentLatin American Art
Dateca. 1870
MediumPainted earthenware
Dimensionsh. 27 in. (68.6 cm)
d. 14 1/2 in. (36.8 cm)
Credit LineSan Antonio Museum of Art, The Nelson A. Rockefeller Mexican Folk Art Collection
Object number85.98.1836.a
Geography
Place madeSan Blas Atempa, Oaxaca, Mexico, North and Central America
DescriptionThe top of this water container support is shaped like a man's head with protruding ears, mustache, and beard. Body is decorated with iron-red and green geometrical and floral designs. Area for arms is black.Exhibition HistoryExhibited, Twenty Centuries of Mexican Art / Veinte Siglos de Arte Mexicano, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1940.

Con Cariño: Mexican Folk Art from the Collection of the San Antonio Museum Association (San Antonio Museum of Art), 1986.Published ReferencesTwenty Centuries of Mexican Art / Veinte Siglos de Arte Mexicano (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1940), fig. 102, pg. 134.

Marion Oettinger, Jr., Folk Treasures of Mexico: The Nelson A. Rockefeller Collection (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1990, pl. 20.
On view
Collections
San Antonio Museum of Art, The Nelson A. Rockefeller Mexican Folk Art Collection.
Water Vessel Support
Unknown
ca. 1948
Image Not Available for Seated Male Figure
Seated Male Figure
Unknown
Culture: Nayarit
ca. 200 B.C.-A.D. 300
Image Not Available for Seated Human Figure
Seated Human Figure
Unknown
Culture: Nayarit
ca. 200 B.C.-A.D. 300
San Antonio Museum of Art, The Nelson A. Rockefeller Mexican Folk Art Collection.
Water Vessel
ca. 1948
San Antonio Museum of Art, Museum Purchase: Stark-Willson Collection.
Mummy Mask
Culture: Egyptian
late 1st century B.C.-1st century A.D.
San Antonio Museum of Art, The Robert K. Winn Collection.
Water Vessel with Lid
The Robert K. Winn Collection.
Water Jar
20th century
San Antonio Museum of Art, gift of Mrs. A. A. Seeligson, Sr.
Figure with Hands on Hips
Unknown
Culture: Tlatilco
ca. 1000-500 B.C.
San Antonio Museum of Art, purchased with Endowment Funds.
Standing Female Figure
Unknown
Culture: Chupícuaro
ca. 500-100 B.C.
Gift of Gilbert M. Denman, Jr.
Mummy Mask
Culture: Egyptian
ca. 305-30 B.C.
San Antonio Museum of Art, bequest of Gilbert M. Denman, Jr.
Bust of a Greek Writer or Philosopher
Culture: Roman
2nd century A.D.
San Antonio Museum of Art, The Nelson A. Rockefeller Mexican Folk Art Collection.
Jar
ca. 1925

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