Mythological Scene Depicting a Diety with a Bundle

c. 658-667

Made for Ju’n Chakaw Naahb Cha’n (ruled 658-667)
Late Classic Maya, “Codex Style” ceramic
La Corona (Saknikte’), Usumacinta River area, Guatemala

Status: On View, Gallery 136
Department: Arts of the Americas

Culture: Maya
Title: Mythological Scene Depicting a Diety with a Bundle, Vessel Depicting a Mythological Scene
Places: Guatemala (Object made in), Usumacinta (Object made in)
Date: Made 658 CE-667 CE
Medium: Ceramic and pigment
Dimensions: 16.5 × 11.4 cm (6 1/2 × 4 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Gerald K. and Patricia Hoffman
Reference Number: 2009.735
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Everett McNear, High Culture in the Americas before 1500, exh. cat. (Chicago: Arts Club of Chicago, 1982), 18-19, cat. 36 (ill.)
Richard Townsend, The Art of Tribes and Early Kingdoms: Selections from Chicago Collections, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1983), 39, cat. 63 (ill.).
Richard Townsend with Elizabeth Pope, Indian Art of the Americas at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2016), 201, cat. 158 (ill.).
Matthew Looper and Yuriy Polyukhovych, “A Royal Vase from La Corona in the Art Institute of Chicago,” in Glyph Dwellers, report 58 (Mar. 2018): 1-10 (ill.).

Arts Club of Chicago, High Culture in the Americas before 1500, Nov. 15–Dec. 31, 1982, cat. 36.
Art Institute of Chicago, The Art of Tribes and Early Kingdoms: Selections from Chicago Collections, Jan. 12–Mar. 4, 1984, cat. 63.
Art Institute of Chicago, World of the Maya Artist, May 23–Jul 13, 1997, no cat.

Ju’n Chakaw Naahb Cha’n, La Corona (Saknikte’), Guatemala, c. 658-667 [also known as Chakaw Nahb Chan; born 615, ruled 658-667; Looper and Polyukhovych 2018]. Unknown gallery, Los Angeles, CA, by mid-1960s [this and the following according to letter and documentation from Robert and Marianne Huber; recorded in curatorial object file]; sold to Huber Primitive Arts, Dixon, IL, mid-1960s; sold to Gerald K. Hoffman (1930–2024) and Patricia Hoffman, Belvidere, IL, early 1970s; given to the Art Institute, 2009.

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