Chocolate Jar with Iron-locked Lid

1. Herbert Pickering Lewis (1876–1922), Mexico City, Mexico, from late 19th/early 20th century [correspondence and research in curatorial object file]; by descent to his widow, Eva Lewis (born Eva Hill, died c. 1964), Mexico City, Mexico, from 1922 [exported from Mexico Oct./Nov. 1923; received in Chicago Dec. 3, 1923 according to correspondence from Eva Lewis to Robert Harshe, Nov. 4, 1923, and incoming permanent receipt R1335, Dec. 3, 1923, copies in curatorial object file, Arts of the Americas]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1923.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Milwaukee Art Institute, Children’s Arts Program exhibition, Mar. 4–May 17, 1957, no cat.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Mexican Majolica of the 17th to the 19th Centuries, 1967, no cat.
• Chicago, Field Museum, Fiesta Mexicana, Sept. 13–Nov. 9, 1969, no cat.
• Chicago, David and Alfred Smart Gallery, University of Chicago, Blue and White: Chinese Porcelain and Its Impact on the Western World, Oct. 3–Dec. 1, 1985, cat. 111.
• Art Institute of Chicago, The Silk Road and Beyond: Travel, Trade, and Transformation, Sept. 30, 2006–Apr. 22, 2007, not in cat.
• Art Institute of Chicago, For Kith and Kin: The Folk Art Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago, 2012, cat. 2b.

• B. B., "The Herbert Pickering Lewis Collection of Mexican Pottery: Gift of Mrs. Eva Lewis," Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago (1907-1951) XVIII, 5 (May 1924): 59 (not ill.).
• John Carswell, Blue and White: Chinese Porcelain and Its Impact on the Western World (University of Chicago Press, 1985), 170-171, cat. 111 (ill.).
• Judith A. Barter and Monica Obniski, For Kith and Kin: The Folk Art Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chciago: Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2012), 30–31, cat 2b (ill.).

Plate

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Large Plate

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Tibor (Jar)

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Jar Depicting Figure in an Exotic Landscape

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Vase Depicting a Phoenixlike Bird

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Jardinière

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Basin Depicting a Cistern, Tower and Domed Building

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Bowl

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