VASE CYLINDRIQUE POLYCHROME

CLASSIQUE FINAL, ENVIRON 550-950 APRÈS J.-C.

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VASE CYLINDRIQUE POLYCHROME
Classique Final, environ 550-950 après J.-C.
Peint sur engobe beige clair en orange, rouge foncé, bleu aigue-marine et noir avec une scène d'audience dans un palais avec un noble assis sur une estrade, vêtu d'un pagne, collier avec pendentif, une coiffe élaborée avec des plumes. Face à lui, une femme accroupie avec une corde dans ses mains. Elle se prépare probablement à se saigner rituellement.

Hauteur: 23.4 cm

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MAYAN POLYCHROME CYLINDER VESSEL, LATE CLASSIC
CA. A.D. 550-950

Painted with an audience scene in a palace with a gesturing lord seated on a raised dais with left leg dangling downward, wearing a tightly cinched belt, necklace with bar pendant and complex headdress with plumes flaring from the back, a kneeling female attendant holding a rope(?) in her hands perhaps as she readies herself for ritual bloodletting, attired in a boldly patterned garment and elaborate headdress and ear-flares, with four glyphs above, painted in orange, deep red, aquamarine blue and black on the cream ground.

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Painted with an audience scene in a palace with a gesturing lord seated on a rasied dais with left leg dangling downward, wearing a tightly cinched belt, necklace with bar pendant and complex headdress with plumes flaring from the back, a kneeling female attendant holding a rope(?) in her hands perhaps as she readies herself for ritual bloodletting, attired in a boldly patterned garment and elaborate headdress and ear-flares, with four glyphs above, painted in orange, deep red, aquamarine blue and black on the cream ground.

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