Object Title
Vessel with Ceremonial Scene
Measurements
4 1/4 x 5 in. (10.8 x 12.7 cm)
Creation Date
ca. A.D. 771
Credit Line
San Antonio Museum of Art, gift of John and Kathi Oppenheimer
Museum Name
Museum Contact
Lynley J. McAlpine, PhD <Lynley.McAlpine@samuseum.org>
Culture
Country of Origin
Object Type
Materials / Techniques
Object URL
https://sanantonio.emuseum.com/objects/10704/vessel-with-ceremonial-scene?ctx=49f13412-a7cc-4496-bbb6-f5d59468392d&idx=0
Museum's Definition of Antiquity
Prior to AD 1550
Provenance Information
Oppenheimer Family, San Antonio, Texas, before 1998 (note 1); on loan by John and Kathi Oppenheimer to San Antonio Museum of Art; 1998-2013; John and Kathi Oppenheimer by gift to San Antonio Museum of Art, 2023.
Note 1: This object appears in a photograph of the Oppenheimer collection dated to 1998. It was likely acquired well before the photograph was made, as many objects in the Oppenheimer collection were acquired before 1980.
Note 1: This object appears in a photograph of the Oppenheimer collection dated to 1998. It was likely acquired well before the photograph was made, as many objects in the Oppenheimer collection were acquired before 1980.
Exhibition Information
On loan by John and Kathi Oppenheimer to San Antonio Museum of Art; 1998-2013.
Publication Information
Line drawing by Persis Clarkson published by Foundation for Latin American Anthropological Research, FLAAR Photo Archive, 1976.
Michael McBride, "X-Ray Toads and 'The Enema Pot': A Maya Vase in the San Antonio Museum of Art," Human Mosaic 33 (2003): 15-23.
Bryan R. Just, Dancing Into Dreams: Maya Vase Painting of the Ik' Kingdom (Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012), 185-189, figs. 132, 133, 134.
Alexandre Tokovinine and Mark Zender, "Lords of Windy Water: The Royal Court of Motul de San José in Classic Maya Inscriptions," in Motul de San José: Politics, History, and Economy in a Maya Polity, ed. Antonia E. Foias and Kitty F. Emery (Gainesville: University Press of Florida), 2012. pp. 39, 61.
Dorie Reents-Budet, Stanley Guenter, Ronald L. Bishop, and M. James Blackman, "Identity and Interaction: Ceramic Styles and Social History of the Ik' Polity, Guatemala," in Motul de San José: Politics, History, and Economy in a Maya Polity, ed. Antonia E. Foias and Kitty F. Emery (Gainesville: University Press of Florida), 2012. pp. 70, 78, 85, 91.
Christina T. Halperin and Antonia E. Foias, "Motul de San José Palace Pottery Production: Reconstructions from Wasters and Debris," in Motul de San José: in Motul de San José: Politics, History, and Economy in a Maya Polity, ed. Antonia E. Foias and Kitty F. Emery (Gainesville: University Press of Florida), 2012. p. 181.
Erik Velásquez García, « Algunas reflexiones sobre la representación del tiempo en la imaginería maya antigua », Journal de la Société des américanistes [En ligne], Maya times | 2017, mis en ligne le 31 décembre 2017, consulté le 22 janvier 2024.
Matthew Looper, "A Vase for K'inich Lamaw Ek' of Motul de San José in the de Young Museum," Glyph Dwellers Report 90 (May 2024): fig. 3.
Charles Cheek, "Hats and Titles: Maya courtier dress and hierarchy in the late Classic Maya court," Ancient Mesoamerica (2024): 1 -23. Table 6.
Michael McBride, "X-Ray Toads and 'The Enema Pot': A Maya Vase in the San Antonio Museum of Art," Human Mosaic 33 (2003): 15-23.
Bryan R. Just, Dancing Into Dreams: Maya Vase Painting of the Ik' Kingdom (Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012), 185-189, figs. 132, 133, 134.
Alexandre Tokovinine and Mark Zender, "Lords of Windy Water: The Royal Court of Motul de San José in Classic Maya Inscriptions," in Motul de San José: Politics, History, and Economy in a Maya Polity, ed. Antonia E. Foias and Kitty F. Emery (Gainesville: University Press of Florida), 2012. pp. 39, 61.
Dorie Reents-Budet, Stanley Guenter, Ronald L. Bishop, and M. James Blackman, "Identity and Interaction: Ceramic Styles and Social History of the Ik' Polity, Guatemala," in Motul de San José: Politics, History, and Economy in a Maya Polity, ed. Antonia E. Foias and Kitty F. Emery (Gainesville: University Press of Florida), 2012. pp. 70, 78, 85, 91.
Christina T. Halperin and Antonia E. Foias, "Motul de San José Palace Pottery Production: Reconstructions from Wasters and Debris," in Motul de San José: in Motul de San José: Politics, History, and Economy in a Maya Polity, ed. Antonia E. Foias and Kitty F. Emery (Gainesville: University Press of Florida), 2012. p. 181.
Erik Velásquez García, « Algunas reflexiones sobre la representación del tiempo en la imaginería maya antigua », Journal de la Société des américanistes [En ligne], Maya times | 2017, mis en ligne le 31 décembre 2017, consulté le 22 janvier 2024.
Matthew Looper, "A Vase for K'inich Lamaw Ek' of Motul de San José in the de Young Museum," Glyph Dwellers Report 90 (May 2024): fig. 3.
Charles Cheek, "Hats and Titles: Maya courtier dress and hierarchy in the late Classic Maya court," Ancient Mesoamerica (2024): 1 -23. Table 6.
Section of the AAMD Guidelines relied upon for the exception to 1970
Gift or bequest expected or on loan prior to 2008
Explain why the object fits the exception set forth above
This work was exhibited as a loan to the San Antonio Museum of Art prior to its donation to the permanent collection. SAMA staff first began working with and exhibiting objects from the Oppenheimer collection by 1998, a relationship that culminated in the donation of the collection to the museum in 2023. Documents presented to the museum prior to the donation indicate that Herbert Oppenheimer (1911-1989) was active in Mesoamerican art collecting by 1960; documentation also shows that his son, John Oppenheimer, was actively collecting by 1968.