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San Antonio Museum of Art, The Nelson A. Rockefeller Mexican Folk Art Collection.
Pulque Pitcher
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 Peggy Tenison.

Pulque Pitcher

Artist Unknown
DepartmentLatin American Art
Dateca. 1930
Dimensionsh. 11 1/2 in. (29.2 cm)
w. 6 1/2 in. (16.5 cm)
d. 8 1/2 in. (21.6 cm)
Credit LineSan Antonio Museum of Art. The Nelson A. Rockefeller Mexican Folk Art Collection
Object number85.98.1971
Geography
Place madeMichoacán, Mexico, North and Central America
DescriptionGlazed earthenware pitcher with painted face wearing a floral headdressExhibition HistoryReading Public Museum, Reading Pennsylvania, April 14 - July 15, 2007

Con Cariño: Mexican Folk Art from the Collection of the San Antonio Museum Association (San Antonio Museum of Art), 1986.
Not on view
San Antonio Museum of Art, The Nelson A. Rockefeller Mexican Folk Art Collection.
early- 20th century
The Nelson A. Rockefeller Mexican Folk Art Collection.
Unknown
19th century
San Antonio Museum of Art, Gift of Klaus and Mary Schilling.
Unknown
Culture: New Spain
early- 19th century
San Antonio Museum of Art, purchased with funds provided by the Lillie and Roy Cullen Endowment…
Unknown
mid to late 18th century
San Antonio Museum of Art, Purchased with Latin American Art Acquisition Funds.
Unknown
late 19th, early 20th century
San Antonio Museum of Art, Bequest of Elizabeth Huth Coates.
Unknown
Culture: Moche
ca. A.D. 600
San Antonio Museum of Art, The Nelson A. Rockefeller Mexican Folk Art Collection.
Unknown
ca. 1940
San Antonio Museum of Art. The Nelson A. Rockefeller Mexican Folk Art Collection.
late- 19th century
San Antonio Museum of Art, The Nelson A. Rockefeller Mexican Folk Art Collection.
20th century
San Antonio Museum of Art, The Nelson A. Rockefeller Mexican Folk Art Collection.
The Uriarte Family
late-19th to early-20th century

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