Bowl with Seated Maize Gods

AAT Object Form/FunctionBowls (vessels)

Place CreatedCampeche, Mexico, North America

CultureMaya

PeriodLate Classic - Terminal Classic

Dateca. 600-950 CE

MediumCeramic

Credit LineGift of William C. and Carol W. Thibadeau

Dimensions4 5/16 x 5 3/4 in. (11 x 14.6 cm)

Object number1988.012.009

Exhibition HistoryPre-Columbian Art from the Collections of Paul A. Clifford and William C. Thibadeau, The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, February 13 - April 4, 1971
Ceremonial Objects of Ancient Mexico, Pink Palace Museum, Memphis, Tennessee, April 28 - September 2, 1984
Seeing with New Eyes: Pre-Columbian Art from the Thibideau Collection, Emory University Museum of Art and Archaeology, March 4 - October 13, 1992
MCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, May 11, 1993 - 2001
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 13, 2002 - June 2012
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, February 9, 2013 - May 13, 2019
MCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, July 2, 2019 - Present

Published ReferencesPre-Columbian Art from the Collections of Paul A. Clifford and William C. Thibadeau (Atlanta: High Museum of Art, 1971), plate IX.
Anne B. Hurley, Ceremonial Objects of Ancient Mexico (Memphis: Memphis Museums, 1984), 27, number 121.
Rebecca Stone-Miller, Seeing With New Eyes: Highlights of the Michael C. Carlos Museum Collection of Art of the Ancient Americas (Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum, 2002), 18, figure 20.

ProvenanceEx coll. William (1920-2002) and Carol (1921-2019) Thibadeau, Atlanta, Georgia, purchased 1970.

Status

On view

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