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THBRare Teotihuacan Aragonite Double Bowl Vessel
Lot 80b
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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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2019-11-14 10:00:00
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Featuring Pre-Columbian, Tribal / Oceanic, Spanish Colonial, historical examples from the Spanish, Mexican, and American frontiers, fossils, and more. All items offered for sale have been legally acquired, are legal to sell and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back. Artemis Gallery info@artemisgallery.com
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- Lot Description
Pre-Columbian, Valley of Mexico, Teotihuacan, Tlamimilolpa-Metepec phase, ca. 200 to 750 CE. A striking, incredibly rare vessel made of highly translucent aragonite with a similar color to alabaster. The occasional band of grey contributes to the beauty of the stone. The vessel features a platform with four low, nub-like legs and two flared-sided bowls with graceful, symmetrical forms. The stone used to make it would have come from near the modern day village of Tecali in Puebla state. Size: 6.8" W x 2.8" H (17.3 cm x 7.1 cm)
Teotihuacan is the largest pre-Columbian site in the Americas, called the City of the Gods by the Aztecs, who were as fascinated by its ruins and lost culture as we are today. The artisans of Teotihuacan were masters at carving stone. A very similar (and also lidless) platform vessel was found at the Highland Maya center of Kaminaljuyu in Guatemala in a royal tomb of the Protoclassic/ Early Classic period (ca. 250 to 350 CE). This was a highly desirable luxury item traded in from the great center of Teotihuacan. Interestingly, that example still has a band of green pigment around it, indicating that it and this item were likely once brightly painted.
See a similar example in "Teotihuacan: Art from the City of the Gods", Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Fig. 23, p. 183, also a description of several similar ones in "Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volumes 10 and 11: Archaeology of Northern Mesoamerica", ed. Gordon F. Ekholm and Ignacio Bernal, 2015.
Provenance: ex-private Texas, USA collection of a former curator of the Kimbell Art Museum, early 1970s
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#150461One section of the rim has been professionally restored; this is well done and difficult to see. Rich deposits on surface and a few small chips, nicks, and scratches commensurate with age.Condition
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