About the Artwork
Vessel in Codex Style
between 600 and 900
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Precolumbian
Maya
Earthenware with painted slip decoration
Overall: 4 3/4 × 4 1/4 inches (12.1 × 10.8 cm)
Ceramics
Indigenous Americas
Gift of Joyce and Avern Cohn
1990.289
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Eight glyph blocks situated in one row below the rim: [transliteration of signs] a-LAY-ya tz'i-bi na-ja ji-chi yu-k'i-bi ta-yu-ta-la ka-wa SAK [transcription of the text] "alay tz'ibnajich y-uk'ib ta y-utal (ka)kaw sak" (transcription per Dr. Nikolai Grube) [translation] "Here is it being written the drinking vessel for the fruit of the cacao tree of Sak." (Per Dr. Nikolai Grube)
Provenance
1990-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Grube, Nikolai. “Cover: A Maya Codex-Style vessel at the Detroit Institute of Arts.” Mexicon 16, no. 3 (June 1994), p. 46; cover (ill.).
You, Yao-Fen. “From Novelty to Necessity: The Europeanization of Coffee, Tea, and Chocolate.” In Coffee, Tea, and Chocolate: Consuming the World, ed. Yao-Fen You, Mimi Hellman, and Hope Saska. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 2016, p. 14; 17 (ill.); 131, cat. 5.
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Maya, Precolumbian, Vessel in Codex Style, between 600 and 900, earthenware with painted slip decoration. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Joyce and Avern Cohn, 1990.289.
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