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THBMaya Pottery Lidded Cache Vessel w/ Deity
Lot 91a
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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, southern Mexico to Guatemala, Maya, Late Classic Period, ca. 500 to 800 CE. A fabulous, hand-built pottery vessel with a matching lid and body of the style found in buried Maya caches. The lid is designed to emulate a disembodied head, perhaps representative of a trophy head, that is surmounted by another, full-bodied figure adorned with ear spools, a nose bar, and a tab-shaped headband. The face along the front of the lid bears white-painted eyes behind a narrow nose bar, ear spools with four subsidiary ringlets, and an arch-shaped headdress with a pair of flared tabs that project outwards from the sides. The body of the vessel is of a minimalist design with a flat base and a splayed rim meant to accommodate the lid above. Remains of ochre yellow, red, black, and white pigment are indicative of just how ornate this vessel was at one time. Size (w/ lid): 8.75" W x 12.125" H (22.2 cm x 30.8 cm)
Unlike many other ancient civilizations, the Mayans did not have cemeteries or necropolises; instead, they buried both human remains and ritual caches of pottery filled with offerings, jade, beads, and other precious items throughout their lived-in-landscape, especially as part of their architecture. These all seem to have been "earth offerings," and may have been dedications for newly built construction, markers for the end of use of a building, or some kind of renewal ceremony relating to the broader concept of Mayan cosmology: the cycle of planting, harvest, and rebirth. Caches have been found in floors, in the fill of buildings, or set into walls. Vessels with lids seem to have been symbolic of houses or structures to the Maya, meaning that these vessels served as symbolic offerings of the buildings they were buried inside, able to be filled with offerings of food or drink, sanctifying the construction.
Provenance: private New York, New York, USA collection; ex-private Florida, USA collection; ex-Barry Kernerman collection, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; ex-Samuel Dubiner collection, Tel Aviv, Israel, acquired in the 1960s
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#159186Restoration to head and upper arms of figure on lid as well as one upper subsidiary ringlet on left earspool of face on lid, with resurfacing and overpainting along new material and break lines. Minor nicks and abrasions to base, vessel body, lid, face, and figure, with fading to original pigment, and light encrustations. Nice remains of original pigment on lid face and great earthen deposits.Condition
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