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Maya Polychrome Lidded Urn with Seated Figure
(Ancient Americas )
Provenance
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William P. Palmer III, Portland, Maine, active between 1958 and 1973 [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Merrin Gallery, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Private collection, June 1990 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 2008, by gift.
William P. Palmer III was an important Pre-Columbian collector with purchases from Stendahl Galleries, Merrin Gallery, Alphonse Jax, and Borstein.
Geographies
Guatemala (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 32 in. (81.3 cm)
Credit Line
Anonymous gift, 2008
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
48.2793