Vessel with a Battle Scene

Artist: Unknown

A.D. 600–900

Art of the Ancient Americas

On view, 1st floor, Art of the Ancient Americas
Medium

Mold-pressed ceramic

Dimensions

6 1/16 × 5 1/4 in. (15.44 × 13.28 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Peter David Joralemon, B.A. 1969, M.Phil.1974

Accession Number

2018.173.14

Geography

Guatemala, or Mexico

Culture

Mexico or Guatemala, Maya

Period

Late Classic Period

Classification

Containers

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Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of records is ongoing.

Provenance
Ex-collection-Throckmorton Fine Art, NY;
Balene McCormick* (May 7, 1936 - September 23, 2016), Houston and Santa Fe, acquired in 1980;
Ed Merrin, New York, acquired in the 1970s;
Raul Kampfer**

*President of the Contemporary Art Museum, Houston; owned her own gallery in Houston; collector of African art (collection sold at Sotheby's in May 2013)

**Raul Kamfer (spanish spelling), was a well known dealer in the 1940s-1960s. Online provenance of several other Merrin pieces is Raul Kampfer. YUAG Aztec fott vessel is also ex collection of Raul Kampfer.
Could be the same Raúl Kampffer as the filmmaker.

Bibliography
  • "Selected Acquisitions," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2019), 105, ill
  • Mary E. Miller and Claudia Brittenham, The Spectacle of the Late Maya Court: Reflections on the Murals of Bonampak (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2013),
  • Douglas Donne Bryant, John E. Clark, and David Cheetham, eds., Ceramic Sequence of the Upper Grijalva Region, Chiapas, Mexico (Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 2005), 506, n, ill
  • "mayavase.com," www://mayavase.com (accessed 1998), no. k503
  • Mary E. Miller, The Murals of Bonampak (Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 1986),
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

histories (visual works), legends (literary genre), utilitarian objects, vessels, warfare

Subject

wars

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