Currently not on view
Bowl with Wahy Figures,
ca. 755 CE
attributed to Mo?-n Buluch Laj, active mid-8th century, Ik'a (Motul de San José or vicinity), Petén, Guatemala
Patron: attributed to Yajawte’ K’ihnich
Patron: attributed to Yajawte’ K’ihnich
Maya
Late Classic Period
y1993-18
Information
Title
Bowl with Wahy Figures
Dates
ca. 755 CE
Maker
Medium
Ceramic with polychrome slip
Dimensions
h. 8.2 cm., diam. 19.0 cm. (3 1/4 x 7 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund
Object Number
y1993-18
Place Made
North America, Guatemala, Petén, Maya area, Motul de San José or vicinity
Reference Numbers
K0792 / MS1771 / –
Culture
Period
Type
Materials
Fine Arts of Ancient Lands, New York, by 1978; Mary O’Boyle, by 1988; Princeton University Art Museum, 1993
- Francis Robiscek, The Maya Book of the Dead: The Ceramic Codex (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Art Museum, 1981)., fig. 14, p. 113 (illus.)
- Justin Kerr, The Maya Vase Book: A Corpus of Rollout Photographs of Maya Vases, Volume 1 (New York: Kerr Associates, 1989)., p. 103 (illus. rollout)
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1993", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 53, no. 1 (1994): p. 46-95., p. 70
- Bryan R. Just, Dancing into Dreams: Maya Vase Painting of the Ik' Kingdom (Princeton, Princeton University Art Museum, 2012)., fig. 71a, p. 137
- Sarah Nunberg, "New Insights from Conservation and Materials Analysis of Maya Vases at Princeton," in Dancing into Dreams, Maya Vase Painting of the Ik' Kingdom, ed. Bryan R. Just (Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum, 2012): 220-235., fig. 167 (illus.)
- Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collections (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2013), pg. 308
