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THBMaya Pottery Cylinder w/ Zoomorphic Head
Lot 63c
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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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- Lot Description
Pre-Columbian, Mexico and northern Central America, Maya, Late Classic Period, ca. 550 to 900 CE. A gorgeous pottery vessel presenting a cylindrical body with straight walls and a circular rim, all sitting upon a flat base. Boasting an intricately incised decorative program, the exterior of the vessel is adorned with a block glyph design in low relief with 2 large square glyphs that resemble zoomorphic heads in profile decorating the body and an additional band of glyphs sitting just below the rim. Size: 6.4" Diameter x 8.4" H (16.3 cm x 21.3 cm)
Residue analysis on vessels like this one show that they were used for drinking chocolate, a hugely popular and ritual practice amongst the Maya, especially the elite. Although we know little about the artisans who made vessels like this one, we do know that cylinder jars are often associated with tombs, sometimes ritually broken. Prominent Maya scholar Michael Coe has connected the scenes depicted upon the most important of these vessels with the sixteenth century Maya written epic, the Popol Vuh, which describes Maya religion and mythology, as this one perhaps does.
These ancient glyphs may convey an important date, a secret message, or simply be part of the vessel's aesthetic program. According to Dorie Reents-Budet, "One of the remarkable characteristics of Classic Maya painted pottery is the use of writing as more than simply a way to communicate ideas. As in the Islamic tradition, Maya artists employed calligraphy as a prime design feature and as an integral part of the total composition… The hieroglyphic texts also were used as compositional devices, placed specifically to help define the internal tensions, balances and divisions within the pictorial field." (Dorie Reents-Budet, "Painting the Maya Universe: Royal Ceramics of the Classic Period", Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1994, page 12)
Provenance: private Hawaii, USA collection, acquired in 2004; ex-Roy Oswalt collection, New Mexico, USA
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#168283Repaired from several pieces with restoration. Some minor nicks and abrasions, commensurate with age. Otherwise, excellent with impressive preservation of detail and light earthen deposits on interior.Condition
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