Xantil (Effigy censer),

1450–1520

Likely between 1960 and 1962, Stendahl Gallery (9009) [1]; by 1968, sold to Edith Hafter, Zurich, Switzerland [2]; December 6, 2005, anonymous (“Appartenant a Divers Amateurs” sale, Christie’s, Paris, lot 419, sold to the Princeton University Art Museum.

Notes:
[1] See: Stendahl Art Galleries records, 1880-2003 > Series IV. Administrative and financial files, circa 1922-2017, undated > Ledger of works with identifying numbers consigned by artists and other owners, including William Wendt and Alson Clark > box 97, Stock book: 280-3091, undated [p. 196]. Entry 9009 lists “Seated Figure – elaborate headdress – Xantil Type – Mixtex – Teotitlan del Camino or Tehuacan, polychrome stucco on clay h. 25”,” and the was buyer listed as Hafter. Item 9008 in same ledger was bought by Bliss, who died in 1962, so before then. PC.B.041 is a tuerto hacha purchase from Stendahl in 1960, likely the object listed as 9008 and thus probably also 1960. See here: http://museum.doaks.org/objects-1/info?query=Portfolios%20%3D%20%222651%22&sort=0&page=8
[2] Published in Hasso Von Winning, Pre-Columbian Art of Mexico and Central America (New York: Harry Abrams, 1968), cat. no. 349.

• Hasso Von Winning and Alfred Stendahl, Pre-Columbian Art of Mexico and Central America, (New York: Abrams, 1968), pl. 304
• Christie's Paris. Art Africain, Océanien et précolombien, sale code HUNAHPU-5329 (6 December 2005, Paris)., lot 419 (illus.)
• John M. D. Pohl, Sorcerers of the Fifth Heaven: Nahua Art and Ritual of Ancient Southern Mexico (Princeton: Princeton University Program in Latin American Studies no. 9, 2007)., fig. 25d, p. 44 (illus.)
• "Acquisitions of the Princeton University Art Museum 2006," Record of the Princeton University Art Museum 66 (2007): p. 41-74., p. 74