Ceremonial drinking vessel
1300–1521
Object PlacePuebla or Tlaxcala, Mexico
Medium/TechniqueEarthenware with red, yellow, white, and black on orange slip paint; interior bottom with burnished orange slip has specular flakes.
DimensionsHeight x diameter: 14.6 × 17.1 cm (5 3/4 × 6 3/4 in.)
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds donated by Timothy Phillips and Jeremy and Hanne Grantham
Accession number2015.2
On View
On viewClassificationsCeramics
Collections
ProvenanceMay, 1970 or May, 1971, sold by Stendahl Galleries, Los Angeles, to a private collector, Los Angeles [see note]; November 18-20, 2000, anonymous private collector sale, Sotheby’s, New York, lot 312, to Scott Gentling (d. 2011) and Stuart Gentling (d. 2006), Fort Worth, TX; November 12, 2014, consigned by the Gentling estate, Bonhams, New York, lot 60, sold to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 28, 2015)
NOTE: According to this previous owner, the vessel was acquired in May, 1970. Information supplied by the auction houses that sold the piece suggest that it was acquired in May, 1971.
NOTE: According to this previous owner, the vessel was acquired in May, 1970. Information supplied by the auction houses that sold the piece suggest that it was acquired in May, 1971.
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A.D. 300–550
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