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THBRare Proto-Maya Stone Bench Figure w/ Mushroom Cap
Lot 103a
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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, Proto-Maya culture, ca. 400 to 250 BCE. An extremely rare stone figure with a mushroom-shaped hat seated atop an integral bench. Rigid and ever-watchful, the figure sits with a straight back while supporting his body with paddle-shaped hands placed atop the bench surface. The expressive face presents with Olmecoid features like the eyes and nose, but then with more transitioning Maya style with the lips and the facial structure. Applied red pigment accentuates each of recessed eye, especially within the shade cast over them by the sizable mushroom-cap hat looming above. Additional red pigment further emphasized the gaping areas beneath the arms, between the legs, below the nostrils, and between the lips. Size: 3.25" L x 5.125" W x 7.7" H (8.3 cm x 13 cm x 19.6 cm)
The mushroom cap worn by this figure is likely symbolic of mushrooms that were consumed by the Maya for their psychoactive properties which induced the hallucinogenic trancelike states of shamans. However, the Spanish priests believed these mushrooms caused a type of madness that induced hallucinations of demons and other violence, so they destroyed many of the statues that contained mushroom symbolism.
Provenance: private Lexington, Kentucky, USA collection; ex-Ari Meca collection; ex-private Tucson, Arizona, USA estate, acquired in the 1970s
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#179732Minor abrasions and nicks commensurate with age, with light fading to red pigment, otherwise intact and near-choice. Great preservation to figural presentation, and wonderful surface smoothness throughout.Condition
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