Details
FRAGMENT DE JOUG
VERACRUZ, EL TAJÍN
CLASSIQUE RÉCENT, ENV. 550-950 AP. J.-C.
Pierre vert olive pâle
Hauteur : 13.4 cm. (5 ¼ in.)
Provenance
Earl L. Stendahl (1888-1966), Stendahl Galleries, Los Angeles
Collection James et Marilynn Alsdorf, Chicago, acquis auprès de cette dernière le 8 mai 1957
Literature
Art Institute of Chicago, Primitive Art from Chicago Collections, Chicago, 1960, première de couverture, n° 34
Von Winning, H., Pre-Columbian Art of Mexico and Central America, Londres, 1969, p. 220, n° 312
McNear, E., High Culture in the Americas before 1500, Chicago, 1982, p. 26, n° 53
Exhibited
Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Primitive Art from Chicago Collections, 16 novembre 1960 - 2 janvier 1962
Chicago, The Arts Club of Chicago, High Culture in the Americas before 1500, 15 novembre - 31 décembre 1982
Special notice
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Further details
VERACRUZ STONE YOKE FRAGMENT, EL TAJÍN
The substantial fragment probably from a frog yoke, finely carved in low relief on the exterior side, on the short end carved with the realistic portrait of a dignitary in profile with youthful features distinguished by full, outlined lips and sunken elongated eye, adorned with a double-stranded necklace, earspool and elaborate headdress composed of scrolls and the stylized upper jaw of a mythical creature resting on the finely striated hair; in pale olive stone.
For a similar example, see Museum Für Völkerkunde, Vienna, inv. no. 5990.
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