1970s, in a collection outside of Guatemala [see note 1]. By 1981, in a collection in New York [see note 2]. By 1987 until at least 1994, Carol Meyer, New York [see note 3]. May 10, 2008, anonymous sale, Skinner, Boston, lot 37, to a private collector; 2009, gift of this private collector to the MFA. (Accession Date: February 25, 2009)

NOTES: [1] Nicholas Hellmuth, who photographed Pre-Columbian objects in collections outside of Latin America, photographed the vase in the 1970s. [2] Justin Kerr photographed it in New York City in 1981 (no. K1463). [3] The vase was on loan to the Yale University Art Gallery during this time.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: The MFA proceeded with the acquisition in light of the vase’s extensive exhibition and publication history and because it was outside of Guatemala by the 1970s.

EXHIBITION HISTORY: On loan to the Yale University Art Gallery from 1987 until 1994.

PUBLISHED REFERENCES:
Justin and Barbara Kerr, Maya Vase Book (New York: Kerr Associates, 1989), vol. 1: 89.

Dorie Reents-Budet et al., Painting the Maya Universe: Royal Ceramics of the Classic Period (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1994), p. 168, fig. 5.4.

Dorie Reents-Budet et al., “Interacciones Politicas y el Sitio Ik’ (Motul de San José): Datos de la Cerámica,” pp. 1141-1161 in XX Simposio (2006) de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala, 2006: Museo Nacional de Antropología e Etnología, ed. J. P. Laporte, B. Arroyo and H. Mejía (Guatemala: Ministerio de Cultura y Deportes, 2007).