01 Photograph Gallery

02 Object Information

Description

A Teotihuacan-style theater-style incense burner with a lid, decorated with the face of a figure wearing a yellow headdress with appliqués of flowers and circles in yellow, white, green, and red.

The figure has yellow hair and a red face or mask. He wears round ear ornaments and an appliquéd necklace. A highlight is the  nose ornament in the shape of a naturalistic butterfly, painted greenish-blue.

With his hands at his sides, forming the side frames, he holds rectangular banners decorated with “three mountain glyphs” and yellow butterflies.

* Pacific coast of Guatemala, around Tiquisate and La Gomera, Escuintla.

*Piece voluntarily donated by Mr. Héctor Santamarina Herrera

Period

CLASSIC (150/200 A.D.-900 A.D.) Early Classic (150/200- 650 AD).

Provenance

Pacific Coast of Guatemala

Medium / Material

Clay

Technique

Appliqué / application, Incised, Modeled, Molded, Painting

Dimensions

Total Height: (a y b): 101 cm

Height “a” (lid): 61 cm;
Height “b” (base): 40 cm
Diameter “”b””: 41.5 cm

03 References and Exhibitions

References to similar objects

Similar objects have been found on the Pacific Coast of Guatemala, especially in the area of ​​Tiquisate and La Gomera, Escuintla, dating for the Early Classic
period, especially from 350 – 550 A.D. (Reents-Budet; Headrick and Bishop, 2017)

 

Bove, Frederick J. 2000. Teotihuacan y la Costa del Pacífico de Guatemala: La ideología de estructura política. En XIII Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala, 1999 (editado por J.P. Laporte, H. Escobedo, B. Arroyo y A.C. de Suasnávar), pp.117-131. Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología, Guatemala (versión digital).

Reents-Budet, Dorie; Annabeth Headrick and Ronald Bishop. 2017. “Entangled Ideologies on the Pacific Coast: the Teotihuacan-style Maya censers from the Department of Escuintla, Guatemala”. Presented at The 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, British Columbia. 2017 ( tDAR id: 431290)

 

Exhibitions

1. “MASTERPIECES OF THE PRE-COLUMBIAN ARTIST.” Santo Domingo del Cerro Cultural Center, Antigua Guatemala (from December 2019 to February 2, 2022)

Publications