Object Title
Ceremonial drinking vessel
Measurements
Height: 6 1/2 in.
Creation Date
1300–1521
Credit Line
Museum purchase with funds donated by Timothy Phillips and Jeremy and Hanne Grantham
Museum Name
Culture
Country of Origin
Object Type
Materials / Techniques
Object URL
http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/ceremonial-drinking-vessel-610779
Provenance Information
May, 1970 or May, 1971, sold by Stendahl Galleries, Los Angeles, to a private collector, Los Angeles [see note]; November 18-20, 2000, anonymous private collector sale, Sotheby’s, New York, lot 312, to Scott Gentling (d. 2011) and Stuart Gentling (d. 2006), Fort Worth, TX; November 12, 2014, consigned by the Gentling estate, Bonhams, New York, lot 60, sold to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 28, 2015)
NOTE: According to this previous owner, the vessel was acquired in May, 1970. Information supplied by the auction houses that sold the piece suggest that it was acquired in May, 1971.
NOTE: According to this previous owner, the vessel was acquired in May, 1970. Information supplied by the auction houses that sold the piece suggest that it was acquired in May, 1971.
Exhibition Information
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, March 1983-December 1984 (unconfirmed).
Publication Information
None known.
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
According to the previous owner, the vessel was acquired in May, 1970. Information supplied by the auction houses that sold the piece suggest that it was acquired in May, 1971. Even if it was the latter date, given the sale early in the year, it is reasonable to assume that object was in the United States already by the end of 1970.