Cylindrical Vase with Gods of the Underworld
Artist
Unknown
CultureGuatemala | Maya | Pre-Columbian
Date600-900
MediumCeramic | Polychrome
Dimensions12 × 6 9/16 in. (30.5 × 16.7 cm)
Credit LineGift of Edwin Pearlman and Museum purchase
Object number86.454
Collections
On View
Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 105
ProvenanceDr. Edwin Pearlman to Chrysler Museum of Art 1986Exhibition History"Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art," Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, November 14, 2022 – April 2, 2023; Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX, May 7 – September 3, 2023. Published ReferencesMichael D. Coe, _Old Gods and Young Heroes: The Pearlman Collection of Maya Ceramics_, (Jerusalem: The Israel Museum, 1982), no. 60, p. 108-113. Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos, ed., _Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art_, exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press, New Haven, 2022, 91, fig. 60.
