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THBMaya Peten Codex Bi-Chrome Dish w/ Head of a Deity
Lot 89a
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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, Maya Territories, Guatemala, northern Peten, Mirador Basin, Nakbe, Late Classic Period, ca. 550 to 900 CE. A superb pottery plate adorned with black-on-beige decoration of a deity in the Codex-style from the northern Peten region of Guatemala - all still intact save for the kill hole at the center! The central glyphic motif displays a deity head with surrounding maize iconography. The two bars in the front of this head are each equivalent to the number 5, therefore the count of 10 is assigned to this deity head, while surrounding the head are round cartouches intended as a bordering inscription. Above the god's large, square eye is an infixed glyph, possible representing the "hidden lord" glyph associated with the Maya concept of a "whay" - alter ego or companion spirit. All is encircled by a band of repeated Kan cross motifs characteristic of Codes-style vessels from northern Peten. Size: 11.5" Diameter x 1.5" H (29.2 cm x 3.8 cm)
The Peten region was one of the most densely populated regions in the world during the Maya period, home to several million people and many powerful urban areas, each with their own style of distinctive artwork. They left behind ceramics as dedicatory caches when building monumental and other public structures and residential communities, both of higher and lower statuses - so it was a very widespread practice.
Cf. "Painting the Maya Universe: Royal Ceramics of the Classic Period" by Dorie Reents-Budet and Joseph W. Ball, page 324, #20 (United Kingdom: Duke University Press, 1994).
Provenance: private Lindenhurst, Illinois, USA collection, acquired March 11, 2014 via Edgar L. Owen, Ltd., Lake Hopatcong, New Jersey, USA; ex-Italian collection, collected in the 1930s in Buenes Aires
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#186791Expected surface wear as shown with some chipping to slip and abrasions throughout. Kill hole at center, but otherwise, intact and excellent with liberal remains of painted decoration and earthen deposits to surface.Condition
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