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Art of the Ancient Americas
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Pedestal Vase Depicting K’awiil, God of Lightning
A.D. 800–1200
Incised ceramic with pigment, Fine Orange
20 × 8.1 cm (7 7/8 × 3 3/16 in.)
Gift of the Olsen Foundation
1958.15.22
Geography:
Mexico
Culture:
Mexico, Maya
Period:
Terminal Classic to Early Postclassic Period
Classification:
Containers - Ceramics
Provenance:
Possibly Stable Gallery, New York, February 17, 1956 or possibly Alfred Stendahl Gallery, Los Angeles, March 1, 1957; Fred H. Olsen (1891–1986), and Florence Quittenton Olsen, Guilford, Conn.; gift in 1958 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography:
George A. Kubler, ed., Pre-Columbian Art of Mexico and Central America (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1986), 150–51, 313, no. 327, fig. 172.
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