Description:

Pre-Columbian, Valley of Mexico, Mixtec people, ca. 1200 to 1500 CE. A large, round-bottomed ceramic vessel with a wide, flaring mouth. The interior is painted a darker orange-brown, with a red ring around the rim. On the exterior is a band of highly abstract, glyphoid-like iconography, including a serpentine/avian head that looks like the god Quetzalcoatl, the "Plumed Serpent" or "Feathered Serpent", the snake deity who has many parallels in other Mesoamerican cultures. Worship of Quetzalcoatl helped create an alliance between the Mixtecs, Zapotecs, and Eastern Nahuas in the years immediately prior to and during the Spanish Conquest, with the major pilgrimage center at Cholula, Puebla, being compared to both Rome and Mecca by the Spaniards. Size: 11.45" W x 8" H (29.1 cm x 20.3 cm)

Provenance: ex-Claude Cassuto collection, France, acquired before 1969

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#144512

  • Condition: Repaired from approximately five large pieces, with small amounts of overpaint along the repair lines. Most pigment on the body is original. Light deposits on surface and nice preservation of motifs.

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