Vessel with Monkey and Dog Gods

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Artist Unknown Central and South American

CultureMaya

Titles

Vessel with Monkey and Dog Gods

Date600–900 AD

Possible placeGuatemala

Possible placeMexico

MediumEarthenware with slip

Dimensions7 1/2 × 4 3/16 dia. in. (19.1 × 10.6 cm)

Credit LineGift of Frank Carroll in honor of Peter C. Marzio

Object number2006.676

Current Location

The Caroline Wiess Law Building

205M Wiess Gallery

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Department

Art of the Indigenous Americas

Object Type

CERAMICS

ProvenancePrivate collection, east coast, USA, by at least 1970–1985; purchased by [Huber Primitive Art, Dixon, IL, 1985–1989]; purchased by Frank Carroll, Houston, May 30, 1989–2006; given to MFAH, 2006.
Exhibition History"Birds and Beasts in Ancient Latin America," Houston Museum of Natural Science, April 15–September 15, 1996.

"The Wild and the Tame: Dogs in Native America". Peabody Museum of Natural Science, April 18, 1998–June 1, 1999.

“Fangs, Feathers, and Fins: Sacred Creatures in Ancient American Art,” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 15, 2014–March 22, 2015.

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, on loan, January 28, 2004–November 20, 2006, when accessioned as gift.
Published References mayavase.com, file no. K505 (added on January 19, 1998, but photographed in February 1989) Coe, Michael D.; Cox, Michael; and Kerr, Justin. The Art of the Maya Scribe. London: Thames and Hudson, 1997; New York: Abrams, 1998. Page 110. Kerr, Justin. The Maya Vase Book: A corpus of Rollout Photographs of Maya Vases. New York: Kerr Associates, 1989. Volume 1, page 15, file no. K505. Miller, Mary and Taube, Karl. An Illustrated Dictionary of the Gods and Symbols of Ancient Mexico and the Maya. London: Thames and Hudson, 1993. Page135. Tedlock, Dennis. Popol Vuh: The Definitive Edition of the Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life and the Glories of Gods and Kings. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996. Page 107. Breaking the Maya Code (a feature documentary of David Lebrun). Night Fire Films with Arte France, Los Angeles, 2008. Kerr Rollout photo shown on screen during epigraphy talk. Houston, Stephen; Stuart, David; and Taube, Karl. The Memory of Bones: Body, Being, and Experience Among the Classic Maya. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006. Page 257, figure 8.3a. Stone, Andrea and Zender, Marc. Reading Maya Art: A Hieroglyphic Guide to Ancient Painting and Sculpture. London: Thames and Hudson, 2011. Page 4, figure 2 and page 78, figure 2.

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