Object Title
Cylinder Vase
Measurements
10.5 x 10.2 cm (4 1/8 x 4 in.)
Creation Date
A.D. 740-775
Credit Line
Anonymous gift
Museum Name
Culture
Country of Origin
Object Type
Materials / Techniques
Object URL
http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/cylinder-vase-518462
Provenance Information
1970s, in a collection outside of Guatemala [see note 1]. By 1981, in a collection in New York [see note 2]. By 1987 until at least 1994, Carol Meyer, New York [see note 3]. May 10, 2008, anonymous sale, Skinner, Boston, lot 37, to a private collector; 2009, gift of this private collector to the MFA. (Accession Date: February 25, 2009)
NOTES: [1] Nicholas Hellmuth, who photographed Pre-Columbian objects in collections outside of Latin America, photographed the vase in the 1970s. [2] Justin Kerr photographed it in New York City in 1981 (no. K1463). [3] The vase was on loan to the Yale University Art Gallery during this time.
NOTES: [1] Nicholas Hellmuth, who photographed Pre-Columbian objects in collections outside of Latin America, photographed the vase in the 1970s. [2] Justin Kerr photographed it in New York City in 1981 (no. K1463). [3] The vase was on loan to the Yale University Art Gallery during this time.
Exhibition Information
On loan to the Yale University Art Gallery from 1987 until 1994.
Publication Information
Justin and Barbara Kerr, Maya Vase Book (New York: Kerr Associates, 1989), vol. 1: 89.
Dorie Reents-Budet et al., Painting the Maya Universe: Royal Ceramics of the Classic Period (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1994), p. 168, fig. 5.4.
Dorie Reents-Budet et al., “Interacciones Politicas y el Sitio Ik’ (Motul de San José): Datos de la Cerámica,” pp. 1141-1161 in XX Simposio (2006) de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala, 2006: Museo Nacional de Antropología e Etnología, ed. J. P. Laporte, B. Arroyo and H. Mejía (Guatemala: Ministerio de Cultura y Deportes, 2007).
Dorie Reents-Budet et al., Painting the Maya Universe: Royal Ceramics of the Classic Period (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1994), p. 168, fig. 5.4.
Dorie Reents-Budet et al., “Interacciones Politicas y el Sitio Ik’ (Motul de San José): Datos de la Cerámica,” pp. 1141-1161 in XX Simposio (2006) de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala, 2006: Museo Nacional de Antropología e Etnología, ed. J. P. Laporte, B. Arroyo and H. Mejía (Guatemala: Ministerio de Cultura y Deportes, 2007).
Section of the AAMD Guidelines relied upon for the exception to 1970
Cumulative facts and circumstances
Explain why the object fits the exception set forth above
The MFA proceeded with the acquisition in light of the vase’s extensive exhibition and publication history and because it was outside of Guatemala by the 1970s.