2018-12
Object Title
Incised and painted bottle gourd
Measurements
approx. h. 10.2 cm (4 in.)
Creation Date
A.D. 80–260
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Gillett G. Griffin Art of the Ancient Americas Fund
Museum Name
Culture
Country of Origin
Object Type
Materials / Techniques
Object URL
https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/collections/objects/133370
Museum's Definition of Antiquity
1532
Provenance Information
By 1965, Alan C. Lapiner, New York; 1965-2018, private New York collection (collector object #3)
Exhibition Information
none
Publication Information
none
Section of the AAMD Guidelines relied upon for the exception to 1970
Informed judgement that works were outside of the country of modern discovery before 1970
Explain why the object fits the exception set forth above
Based on the results of provenance research, the Princeton University Art Museum can make an informed judgment that the object was outside its probable country of modern discovery before 14 November 1970. The collector maintained a sequential inventory of their collection with the year of each acquisition specified. The accuracy of the list is corroborated by a number of works in the inventory that were either published in other collections prior to the collector’s acquisition date or published or exhibited shortly after the acquisition, in each instance with the appropriate ownership history indicated. According to the inventory, the collector acquired this work in the second half of 1965 from Alan C. Lapiner, a New York art dealer.
