Provenance Information

Ex coll. Mark Hampton, United States. Ex coll. Nicholas Pisaris, United States, bequest from Hampton.

Exhibition Information

To our knowledge, this object has never been exhibited.

Publication Information

To our knowledge, this object has never been published.

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

Donor was living and working in Venezuela in the 1960s and 1970s. We have receipts and documentation that support he was collecting in good faith, but we are unable to match the documents to specific objects.

Provenance Information

Ex coll. Nicholas Pisaris, Venezuela and United States, collected ca. 1968-1975.

Exhibition Information

To our knowledge, this object has never been exhibited.

Publication Information

To our knowledge, this object has never been published.

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

Donor was living and working in Venezuela in the 1960s and 1970s. We have receipts and documentation that support he was collecting in good faith, but we are unable to match the documents to specific objects.

Provenance Information

Ex coll. Nicholas Pisaris, Venezuela and United States, collected ca. 1968-1975.

Exhibition Information

To our knowledge, this object has never been exhibited.

Publication Information

To our knowledge, this object has never been published.

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

Donor was living and working in Venezuela in the 1960s and 1970s. We have receipts and documentation that support he was collecting in good faith, but we are unable to match the documents to specific objects.

Provenance Information

Ex coll. Nicholas Pisaris, Venezuela and United States, collected ca. 1968-1975.

Exhibition Information

To our knowledge, this object has never been exhibited.

Publication Information

To our knowledge, this object is unpublished.

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

Donor was living and working in Venezuela in the 1960s and 1970s. We have receipts and documentation that support he was collecting in good faith, but we are unable to match the documents to specific objects.

Provenance Information

George Quieros, San Jose, CA (2004); said to have come from the Quieros family estate, Costa Rica, decades earlier; Throckmorton Fine Art, Inc., New York, NY; Robert L. Drapkin and Chitranee Drapkin Collection (2004).

Exhibition Information

On view at the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg since October 2020.

Publication Information

None.

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

Promised gift prior to 2008.

Provenance Information

Purchased by Major Elmer McBryde c. 1947 from another army officer, by decent to daughter, Diana McBride-Farley; Throckmorton Fine Art Inc., New York, NY: Robert L. Drapkin and Chitranee Drapkin Collection, St. Petersburg, FL (2003).

Exhibition Information

On view at the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg since October 2021.

Publication Information

None.

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

Promised gift prior to 2008.

Provenance Information

Collected by Supreme Court Magistrate Maximo Acosta Soto, Costa Rica, prior to 1958; Collection of Haig Kurdian, Wichita, KS, 1959-2016, acquired from above, following registration with the National Museum, San José, and the procurement of the appropriate export license (now lost; another license for the non-jade component of the Soto collection is in Kurdian’s possession)

Exhibition Information

January 1969-March 1969, Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego – Kurdian Collection of Pre-Columbian Jades

Publication Information

Keitzmann, Armin. 9 February 1969. “Pre-Columbian Jade Items on Exhibit.” Exhibition review San Diego Union. Five of the objects illustrated.

Sotheby’s. 2014. African, Oceanic and Pre-Columbian Art Including Property from the Krugier and Lasansky Collections (sale N09146, 16 May 2014). Ten items of the proposed group illustrated

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 these objects were outside their probable country of modern discovery before 1970. It has been difficult to prove with explicit documentation that each individual item of this large collection was part of the Acosta Soto collection and exported from Costa Rica under the 1959 license, or that they were included in the 1969 San Diego exhibition. However, we consider this highly likely given the consistency in the listed scale and scope of the collection. Research has involved consultation with the Costa Rican Minister of Culture, archivists at the San Diego Museum of Art (formally the Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego), and Mr. Kurdian’s related papers, letters, etc.

Provenance Information

c. 1961/before c. 1975 – 2008 collection of Thomas Carroll (b. 1919), Chevy Chase, MD (acquired in Latin America while stationed with the Food and Agriculture Organization, UN (1958-1961) or while working on assignment with the Inter-American Development Bank (1961-1984)); 2008 collection of Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca (gift of Thomas Carroll)

Exhibition Information

Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, A New World: Pre-Columbian Art from the Carroll Collection, March 29 – June 15, 2008

Publication Information

Scott, John F. and Laura Johnson-Kelly. A New World: Pre-Columbian Art from the Carroll Collection [an exh. cat.]. (Ithaca: Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, 2008); ref. p. 141, color illus. p. 141, cat. no. 239.

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

The donor pledged part of his collection, including this object, to the museum prior to 2008, as per correspondence between the donor and the museum dated 2005, on file. The object was acquired by the donor between the 1960s and early 1970s, while stationed in or on assignment to Latin America.

Provenance Information

January 16, 1973, sold by the University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, to William and Bertha Teel, Marblehead, MA; 2014, bequest of William Teel to the MFA. (Accession Date: February 26, 2014)

Exhibition Information

No known exhibition history.

Publication Information

No known publication history.

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

This figure was in the United States by 1973, and possibly earlier, though efforts to trace its provenance further have been unsuccessful. It was outside its likely country of origin, Costa Rica, before Law No. 6703 was passed in 1981.

Provenance Information

Purchased in 1972 by J. Joseph Marr from Romulo Berrocal, "La Huaca" in San Jose, Costa Rica.

Exhibition Information

None known prior to acquisition by DAM.

Publication Information

None known prior to acquisition by DAM.

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

This bowl was acquired by the donor in Costa Rica only two years after 1970, at a time when archaeological materials were freely available for purchase. The Denver Art Museum holds the finest and most comprehensive collection of pre-Columbian art from Costa Rica in the United States, and has served as an invaluable resource for scholars for decades. The acquisition of this small bowl expands the collection's representation of forms and decorative schemes, and makes this object accessible to scholars.