Lot Essay
Cet exemplaire à l’aspect monumental comporte deux larges colonnes; il repose sur une plateforme fine et se trouve sous une toiture à gradins.
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"... the concept of an opening as a symbolic passage between the world of the living and the world of the dead seems to have captivated the imagination of man... Perhaps both were significant: the structure as a dwelling for the deceased in afterlife and the opening as a door onto the world beyond." (Gay 1995: 114)
TEMPLEMEZCALA
PRÉCLASSIQUE RÉCENT, env. 300 – 100 av. JC
Details
TEMPLE
MEZCALA
PRÉCLASSIQUE RÉCENT, env. 300 – 100 av. JC
Métadiorite vert foncé à patine lustrée
Hauteur 15 cm. (5 7/8 in.)
MEZCALA
PRÉCLASSIQUE RÉCENT, env. 300 – 100 av. JC
Métadiorite vert foncé à patine lustrée
Hauteur 15 cm. (5 7/8 in.)
Provenance
Acquis par le propriétaire actuel avant 1994
Literature
Carlo Gay, Ancient Ritual Stone Artifacts: Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Imprimerie de l'Académie Royale de Belgique, Gilly, 1995, fig. 86
Exhibited
Antwerp, Offerings for a New Life: Funerary Images from Pre-Columbian West Mexico, 1998, pl. 200
Further details
MEZCALA STONE TEMPLE
Of monumental aspect with two broadly spaced colums of deep section providing a spacious entrance, placed on a thick platform with a stepped roof; in metadiorite with a lustrous patina.
Of monumental aspect with two broadly spaced colums of deep section providing a spacious entrance, placed on a thick platform with a stepped roof; in metadiorite with a lustrous patina.
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Nathalie Hammerschmidt