Mermaid

NameBottle, Jar

Artist Artist unrecorded

Datec. 1960

Place madeSan Bartolo Coyotepec, Oaxaca, Mexico, North America

MediumCeramic, paint

Dimensions20 1/16 × 11 × 2 1/4 in. (51 × 28 × 5.7 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of the Girard Foundation Collection, A.1979.3.555

Object numberA.1979.3.555

Collections

DescriptionMermaid, large bulb body, painted ocen, painted figure, red tail, yellow hair, large hole on top of head.

Angelica Morales

2009

Vitorino Bertoldo Moreiro

Late 1970s - early 1980s

Artist unrecorded

2006

Darío Soteno Léon

1997

18th century

Artist unrecorded

early 20th century

17th century

Artist unrecorded

18th centry

Jose Luis Martin Nieto

Artist unrecorded

1950s to 1960s

Rita and Ivan Lewis

1986

late 19th century