A MAYA CARVED VESSEL

Property from the Estate of Georgia Colin

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A MAYA CARVED VESSEL
Chocholá, Late Classic, Circa A.D. 550-950

With straight cylindrical walls flaring slightly outward at rim, very finely carved relief panel with serpentine and foliate motif surmounted by a supine, finely carved figure possibly representing a deity, the reverse with a diagonal band of glyphs of the Primary Standard Sequence, recessed areas of ceramic vessel highlighted with traces of red pigment
5in. (13cm.) high; 5in. (13cm.) diameter

Lot Essay

See Kerr, The Maya Vase Book, (vol. 2, New York, 1990), p. 303, for similar example; also see Freidel, Schele, Parker, Maya Cosmos, (New York, 1993), p. 133, with imagery that may resemble cleft with maize emerging on lower portion of vessel.