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Cylinder vase
Cylinder vase

Cylinder vase

A.D. 650–800
Object PlaceDepartment of El Petén, Guatemala
Medium/TechniqueEarthenware: red, dark orange, black, brown and white on orange ground slip paint
Dimensions21.7 x 13.4 cm (8 9/16 x 5 1/4 in.)
Credit LineGift of Landon T. Clay
Accession number1988.1255
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsCeramics
Collections
ProvenanceBetween about 1974 and 1978, probably purchased in Guatemala by John B. Fulling (b. 1924 – d. 2005), The Art Collectors of November, Inc., Pompano Beach, FL; May 20, 1987, sold by John B. Fulling to Landon T. Clay, Boston; 1988, year-end gift of Landon Clay to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 25, 1989)

NOTE: This vessel was included in the exhibition "Lords of the Underworld: Masterpieces of Classic Maya Ceramics," The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1978, cat. no. 12. It is one in a group of Maya artifacts (MFA accession nos. 1988.1169 – 1988.1299) known as the “November Collection” after John Fulling’s company, the Art Collectors of November, Inc. John Fulling sold this group of objects to MFA donor Landon Clay in 1987, and they were given to the Museum the following year.

Evidence suggests that John Fulling built the November Collection from sources in Guatemala between 1974 and 1981. Only a portion of what he acquired during this time came to the MFA in 1988. It is not possible to determine precisely which objects were acquired when or from whom.
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