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THBMaya Jaina Pottery Sitting Lord w/ TL
Lot 71d
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Artemis Gallery
686 S Taylor Ave, Ste 106
Louisville, CO 80027
United States
Selling antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art online since 1993, Artemis Gallery specializes in Classical Antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanographic art. Our extensive inventory includes pottery, stone, metal, wood, glass and textil...Read more
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Pre-Columbian, Jaina/Campeche Mexico, Maya, Late Classic Period, ca. 600 to 850 CE. One of my favorites! A fascinating, lifelike, ceramic figure of a youthful lord, portrayed seated. His head meets all the Maya beauty standards - with a shaped, elongated skull, large long nose, and filed teeth. He sits with his legs crossed, wearing a long white skirt over them. He also has a huge shell pectoral, large ear discs, bracelets, and a tall headdress incised vertically down the center. Size: 2.8" W x 6.15" H (7.1 cm x 15.6 cm)
Jaina figures, from an island off the Yucatan peninsula, are noted for their lifelike faces and their immense detail. The clothing that this figure wears almost certainly copies the real clothing of an elite person in the Late Classic Maya period. These figures probably represent actual people and seem likely to have been produced in Campeche and brought to Jaina Island to be buried with the dead. Fascinatingly, the people around Jaina are the only people in southeastern Mesoamerica who put human figures into graves - everywhere else in the region, figures have only been found in domestic contexts. The use of human figures immediately calls to mind the earlier West Mexican cultures that had extensive figures made solely to be placed in their shaft tombs. The Spaniard Diego de Landa, who recorded details of Maya life shortly after the Spanish Conquest, wrote that the artists who created pieces like this one lived lives of religious isolation and ritual, fasting and abstaining.
This piece has been tested using thermoluminescence (TL) analysis and has been found to be ancient and of the period stated. A full report will accompany purchase.
Provenance: private Hawaii, USA collection; ex-Adeon Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 1960s
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#148334One arm has been repaired and restored a the shoulder. Otherwise in very nice condition with great remaining detail and pigment.Condition
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