Description:

Pre-Columbian, Central America, El Salvador, Maya, Copador, Late Classic Period, ca. 550 to 900 CE. A large, hand-built pottery cylinder vessel featuring a pair of intriguing figures surrounded by registers of glyphic forms. The vessel presents with a flat base, smooth walls, and a minimalist, red-ringed rim that encircles the wide mouth. Two exterior panels each portray a highly stylized, left-facing figure in a nearly prone position on his knees and elbows while wearing a discoidal loincloth ornament and intricate chest regalia. The figures' white faces are accentuated by crimson lips and ornate headdresses. The figural panels are separated with two columns of orange and brown pseudoglyphs, and an upper pseudoglyph program bears red spirals and disembodied human heads. Size: 6.1" W x 7.6" H (15.5 cm x 19.3 cm)

Provenance: ex-Barakat Gallery, Beverly Hills, California, USA, acquired prior to 2000

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#162130

  • Condition: Repaired from multiple pieces, with restoration in several areas, and resurfacing with overpainting along new material and break lines. A few hairline fissures are visible along base, with abrasions and fading to original pigment across body, and nicks to body, rim, and base. Nice preservation to figural motifs and pseudoglyphs throughout.

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