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Late Classic, CIRCA A.D. 550-950
Details
A Mayan Terracotta Plate
Late Classic, CIRCA A.D. 550-950
The receptacle with highly distinctive iconography and glyphic text depicting a lord seated in an erect pose on a portable chair decorated with spotted jaguar pelt with cotton streamers extending at the back, head tilted back, wearing a heavily plumed, spangled war helmet adorned with an obsidian disk, a multi-layered waist band with jade plaques and two large obsidian mirrors, a stiff braided white collar and elaborate jade jewelry, a white disk before his nose and a black spot on his cheek symbols that the nobleman has journeyed to the Underworld, a feathered medicine bag suspended from his right arm and a flaring staff held in the left hand, the lord’s name and title appear in the short vertical glyph band in front of his face, framed with a ring of sun and sky symbols and a composite of wild turkey feathers and flowers, the sides decorated with stylized, thatched temples and four plumed serpents, some holding human heads in their jaws, one head wears the ‘trapeze’ headdress commonly associated with ‘war’ in the iconography of the city-state of Teotihuacan, another such device floats between the temples, the flattened rim of the vessel is painted with a very long series of thirty-eight black and white glyphs with multiple titles of nobility, a reference to a dedication to the Moon Goddess and cacao beans
16 ½ in. (42 cm.) diameter
Late Classic, CIRCA A.D. 550-950
The receptacle with highly distinctive iconography and glyphic text depicting a lord seated in an erect pose on a portable chair decorated with spotted jaguar pelt with cotton streamers extending at the back, head tilted back, wearing a heavily plumed, spangled war helmet adorned with an obsidian disk, a multi-layered waist band with jade plaques and two large obsidian mirrors, a stiff braided white collar and elaborate jade jewelry, a white disk before his nose and a black spot on his cheek symbols that the nobleman has journeyed to the Underworld, a feathered medicine bag suspended from his right arm and a flaring staff held in the left hand, the lord’s name and title appear in the short vertical glyph band in front of his face, framed with a ring of sun and sky symbols and a composite of wild turkey feathers and flowers, the sides decorated with stylized, thatched temples and four plumed serpents, some holding human heads in their jaws, one head wears the ‘trapeze’ headdress commonly associated with ‘war’ in the iconography of the city-state of Teotihuacan, another such device floats between the temples, the flattened rim of the vessel is painted with a very long series of thirty-eight black and white glyphs with multiple titles of nobility, a reference to a dedication to the Moon Goddess and cacao beans
16 ½ in. (42 cm.) diameter
Provenance
Midwestern Private Collection, 1960s.
Acquired from the above by Robert and Marianne Huber, Illinois.
Sold, anonymous sale; Christie’s, New York, 23 May 2007, lot 114, where acquired.
Acquired from the above by Robert and Marianne Huber, Illinois.
Sold, anonymous sale; Christie’s, New York, 23 May 2007, lot 114, where acquired.
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