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

Geography:

Guatemala

Status:

On view

Culture:

Guatemala, Naranjo, Maya

Period:

Late Classic Period

Classification:

Containers - Ceramics

Provenance:

Purchased from Sothebys, 1989, sale # 5937

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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