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San Antonio Museum of Art, Gift of The D. Joseph Judge, MD Collection.

Cache Vessel

San Antonio Museum of Art, Gift of The D. Joseph Judge, MD Collection.
San Antonio Museum of Art, Gift of The D. Joseph Judge, MD Collection.
Contact San Antonio Museum of Art, Registrar Department for rights and reproduction of this image. Photography by Ansen Seale.

Cache Vessel

Artist:
Place made:Mexico
General region:North and Central America
Place made:Mexico
General region:North and Central America
Culture: Maya
Culture: Maya
Period: Pre-Columbian
Medium: Earthenware
Dimensions:
h. 7 7/8 in. (20 cm); diam. 12 3/4 in. (32.4 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of The D. Joseph Judge, MD Collection
Object number: 2004.29.7
Provenance: ex-collection of D. Joseph Judge, MD; by inheritance to James T. Judge, Pelham, AL, by 2004; by gift to the San Antonio Museum of Art, 2004
Label Text
Organic plant materials such as copal would been placed in this vessel and burned during religious ceremonies. It most likely originally had a lid from which the smoke would be emiited. The being depicted in the elaborate applique work on the front of the vessel may be the Maya diety Chaak who was a patron of rain and its fundamental role in the success of an agricultural lifeway. (Bernadette Cap, 2021)
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