Art of the Ancient Americas
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Artist: Unknown

Cacao Vessel with Floral Design

A.D. 750–800

Ceramic with pigment and added stucco

other: 26.5 cm (10 7/16 in.)
Stephen Carlton Clark, B.A. 1903, Fund
1989.96.1
Culture: 
Guatemala, Naranjo, Maya
Period: 
Late Classic Period
Classification: 
Containers - Ceramic
Status: 
On view
Bibliography: 

“Acquisitions 1989,” Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (1990): 124.

Adam Herring, “A Royal Artist at Naranjo: Notes on a Late Classic Maya Cylinder Vessel,” Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (1995–96): 34, 38, fig. 1–2, 7a.

Mary E. Miller, The Art of Mesoamerica: From Olmec to Aztec, 5th ed. (London: Thames and Hudson, 2012), 10–11, fig. 3.

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