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THBMaya Pottery Cache Vessel Fragment w/ 3 Faces
Lot 74c
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Artemis Gallery
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Louisville, CO 80027
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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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Ancient art from Egypt, Greece, Italy and the Near East, as well as Asian, Fossils, Pre-Columbian, Native American, African / Tribal / Oceanic, Fine art, and much more! All categories, all price ranges... all legally acquired and guaranteed to be as described or your money back. Artemis Gallery info@artemisgallery.com
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Pre-Columbian, Belize, Maya culture, Classic Period, ca. 4th to 6th century CE. A hand-built pottery wall fragment from a large cache vessel. The semicircular fragment presents three abstract anthropomorphic faces stacked atop one another, with the top being of a more petite side with slits across the bulging eyes, and the two larger faces with broad mouths, ornamented septums, and grand ear spools. A protruding tab along one wall suggests another, identical tab was present on the opposite side at one time. Faint remains of red-orange pigment accentuate the surfaces and suggest how ornately decorated the full vessel was at one time. Size: 9.75" W x 13.875" H (24.8 cm x 35.2 cm)
Unlike many other ancient civilizations, the Maya did not have cemeteries or necropoli. Instead, they buried human remains with ritual caches of pottery filled with offerings of jade, beads, and other precious items throughout the landscape in which they lived. Scholars posit that these caches were perceived as 'earth offerings' as they have been found buried in and around architectural structures as well as in the fill of buildings, or even set into walls. These caches may have been used as dedications for newly built structures, markers for the end of a building's use, or some type of renewal ceremony relating to the broader concept of Maya cosmology and its relation to the natural agricultural cycle.
Provenance: ex-Hill Auction Gallery, Sunrise, Florida, USA; ex-private A. Wolffson collection, found in 1959 in cave near Belize City, Belize
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#159056A fragment of a larger cache vessel. Repaired from several large pieces with small chips and light adhesive residue along break lines. Fading to pigmentation across obverse, with chips and softening to some facial details, and light encrustations. Light remains of pigment and nice earthen deposits. Find information written in white ink on verso.Condition
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