TL.2009.20.235

Object Title
Eccentric
Measurements
L: 11 7/16 x W: 5 1/2 x D: 1/2 in. (29 x 14 x 1.3 cm)
Creation Date
AD 250-850
Credit Line
Gift of John G. Bourne Foundation, 2013
Country of Origin
Object Type
Materials / Techniques
Object URL
http://art.thewalters.org/detail/80390
Provenance Information
Private collection, Miami, since 1980 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Throckmorton Fine Art, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; John G. Bourne, September 11, 2003, by purchase; given to John G. Bourne Foundation, 2003 [1]; given to Walters Art Museum, 2013.
Exhibition Information
Exploring Art of the Ancient Americas: The John Bourne Collection Gift. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore; Albuquerque Museum of Art & History; Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville. 2012-2013.
Publication Information
Reents-Budet, Dorie. Exploring art of the ancient Americas: The John Bourne Collection. Baltimore: Walters Art Museum, 2012.
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
Communications between the Walters Art Museum and the donor of this promised gift began in April 2005.

TL.2009.20.224

Object Title
Eccentric
Measurements
L: 4 13/16 x W: 1 7/8 x D: 5/16 in. (12.2 x 4.8 x 0.8 cm)
Creation Date
AD 250-850
Credit Line
Gift of John G. Bourne, 2014
Country of Origin
Object Type
Materials / Techniques
Object URL
http://art.thewalters.org/detail/80379
Provenance Information
Michael Robins [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; John G. Bourne, 1990s, by purchase; given to Walters Art Museum, 2014.
Exhibition Information
Exploring Art of the Ancient Americas: The John Bourne Collection Gift. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore; Albuquerque Museum of Art & History; Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville. 2012-2013.
Publication Information
Reents-Budet, Dorie. Exploring art of the ancient Americas: The John Bourne Collection. Baltimore: Walters Art Museum, 2012.
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
Communications between the Walters Art Museum and the donor of this promised gift began in April 2005.

2009.26

Object Title
Eccentric flint with heads of K'awil, the god of royal lineage
Measurements
14 3/4 x 10 1/2 x 3/8 in. (37.465 x 26.67 x .953 cm.)
Creation Date
c. 600-900 A.D.
Credit Line
Bequest of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence S. Pollock, Jr.
Culture
Country of Origin
Object Type
Materials / Techniques
Object URL
http://www.dm-art.org/
Provenance Information
Purchased in 1983 by Mr and Mrs. Lawrence S. Pollock, Jr., from Peter Wray, Scottsdale, Arizona; bequeathed by Mrs. Pollock to Dallas Museum of Art (accession date: October 7, 2009)
Exhibition Information
DMA, April 2009 through the present.
Publication Information
N/A
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 an intended bequest to the DMA since 2000 and was acquired by bequest in October 2009. Provenance is established to 1983. This flint was reputedly found at the same site as another eccentric flint, the latter shaped as a crocodile canoe with passengers, which was acquired in 1983 by The Eugene and Margaret McDermott Art Fund, Inc. for the DMA. Both flints were acquired from the collection of Peter Wray and are on display at the DMA. They were reputedly associated as early as the 1970s with the collection of Sr. Castillo of Guatemala, and Spencer Throckmorton, New York, reputedly sold the flints to Peter Wray in 1979. This flint is stylistically different from the McDermott flint, and the stone differs in appearance between the two. The two examples are aesthetically complementary, and if, indeed, they were part of the same cache originally, they are reunited in the DMA’s galleries.
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