Description:

Pre-Columbian, Highlands (Chiapas, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador), Maya Late Classic Period, ca. 550 to 900 CE. A large dish with a deeply flared rim once supported by three legs (now showing losses but with some extant remains), with a highly decorated standing figure - perhaps representing a lord, shaman, or ball player - in tondo. He stands with his body facing front, his head toward the right, and his hands making dance-like gestures. He wears an elaborate feathered headdress, a large earspool, a beaded necklace, wrist cuffs, leg bands, and an elaborate belt with a dotted area possibly representing spotted jaguar pelt. His face is classically Mayan, with a prominent nose and a very long, sloping forehead, representing beauty ideals that real Mayan lords purportedly cosmetically altered themselves to achieve. Surrounding this central portrait is a wide band of huge, bold pseudo-glyphs surrounded by two orange "rain" bands. A series of striated frets further adorns the underside of the rim. Size: 14.1" x 2.25"

Provenance: private D. C. collection, California, USA; D. C. is an Emmy Award winning Hollywood writer and Executive Producer, collected before 2000

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#189443

    Condition:
  • Remarkably unrepaired. Feet missing, probably intentionally "killed" along with two drilled kill holes in base. Liberal root marks and very minor loss to pigment.

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