Provenance Information

with Henry Willard Lende, Jr (1937-2016), San Antonio, TX, by 2016; by gift of the estate of Henry Willard Lende, Jr. to the San Antonio Museum of Art, 2018

Exhibition Information

N/A

Publication Information

N/A

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 object was a gift of the estate of Henry Willard Lende, Jr. (1937-2016) of San Antonio TX, who left behind no records concerning the provenance of this object. SAMA accepted the object with incomplete provenance to make it publicly accessible. Most Maya painted vases are unique in their artwork, thus this piece expands the SAMA collection of Art of the Americas before 1521.

Provenance Information

private collection, California, c. 1965; Robert and Marianne Huber, Chicago (purchased from above owner according to written statement), c. 1965-1969; D. Daniel Michel, Chicago (69:156), 1969-1991; Art of the Ancient New World, New York, 1991; private U.S. collection, 1991-2016; acquired by the Princeton University Art Museum, 2016

Exhibition Information

None

Publication Information

Henderson, Lucia
2008 “Blood, Water, Vomit, and Wine: Pulque in Maya and Aztec Belief,” Mesoamerican Voices 3:53-76. Illus., Fig. 21b (p. 68; line drawing of a detail).

Photographed by Justin Kerr (K9294) and published online at mayavase.com sometime on or after 2006.

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 the object was outside its probable country of modern discovery before 1970. D. Daniel Michel gave each item in his collection a catalogue number, the first two digits of which indicate the year he acquired the work, in this case (19)69. The validity of this cataloguing system is supported by exhibition loans and publications documenting both Michel’s ownership of various items in the appropriate period as well as at least one item published in another collection prior to the date of Michel’s acquisition. Additionally, Robert and Marianne Huber, Chicago, provided a statement that they sold the work to Michel in 1969 after acquiring it from a California collector “in about 1965.”