Anthropomorphic vessel

The photograph forms part of the iconographic apparatus of the volume Museo Nazionale di Antropologia di Città del Messico (Mondadori, 1979), included in the series Musei del Mondo. The texts of the volume were written by Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti and Licia Collobi. The sculpture is reproduced in the catalogue with the following caption (pp. 159–160): Anthropomorphic vessel. 1250-1521. Painted terracotta; height 17 cm. From Casas Grandes. Catalogue no. 12-614. Fondazione Centro Studi sull’Arte Licia e Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti, Lucca, Photographic Archive, Oriental and Extra-European Art section, folder 4, file “Latin America – Pre-Columbian Mexico.”