Pedestal Vase Depicting K'awiil, God of Lightning Maker: Unknown

A.D. 800–1200

Art of the Ancient Americas

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Medium

Incised ceramic with pigment, Fine Orange

Dimensions

7 7/8 × 3 3/16 in. (20 × 8.1 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of the Olsen Foundation

Accession Number

1958.15.22

Geography

Mexico

Culture

Mexico, Maya

Period

Terminal Classic to Early Postclassic Period

Classification

Containers

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Provenance
Stable Gallery, New York, February 17, 1956 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.
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
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Object/Work type

utilitarian objects, vases

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