Bowl with a Monkey Scribe and K’awiil, God of Lightning

A.D. 700–800

Ceramic with carved decoration and pigment

12.065 × 13.97 cm (4 3/4 × 5 1/2in.) other (Max. diameter): 18.415 cm(7 1/4in.)

Leonard C. Hanna, Jr., Class of 1913, Fund

2004.85.1

Geography:

Made in Yucatan, Mexico

Yucatan, Chochola

Status:

On view

Culture:

Mexico, Yucatan, Chochola Style, Maya

Period:

Late Classic Period

Classification:

Containers - Ceramics

Provenance:

Ex November Collection, Sotheby Parke Bernet, NY, 11/22/1978, Lot 171. Sold through PB in 1981, resold at a subsequent sale; Sotheby's sale May 14, 2004, lot 198

Bibliography:

Sotheby’s, New York, Sotheby’s African, Oceanic, and Pre-Columbian Art, sale cat. (May 14, 2004), 167, lot 198, sold for $12,000.

“Acquisitions 2004,” Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2005): 151, ill.

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