The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Art Object

Robert Davidson: Influence of His Ancestors

Artist Robert Davidson, whose work is featured in the exhibition The Coe Collection of American Indian Art (on view December 6, 2011–October 14, 2012), discusses the influence of his ancestors on his own art.

Figure Vessel

Date:: 1st-7th century
Geography:: Mexico, Oaxaca
Culture:: Monte Alban
Medium:: Ceramic
Classification:: Ceramics-Containers
Credit Line:: Museum Purchase, 1900
Accession Number:: 00.5.1420

This artwork is not on display

Provenance

Louis Petich Collection, New York, before 1893–1900, on loan to Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1894–1900
See also
What
Ceramics (29,320)

Vessels (21,921)
Where
North and Central America (81,404)

Mexico (1,973)

Oaxaca (23)
When
A.D. 1-500 (6,201)
In the Museum
Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas (11,467)
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
Mexico, 1–500A.D.