01 Photograph Gallery

02 Object Information

Description

Polychrome vase (red, black, and orange on a cream background) with a slightly diverging wall and concave base, decorated with a royal scene featuring six richly attired figures engaged in conversation.

Three of the figures wear long shirts, ankle-length skirts, jewelry, breastplates, and large headdresses. The other three figures, with whom they are conversing, appear to be of lower rank: they wear loincloths, short black and white capes, and seem to have body and face paint.

The vase has a Standard Primary Sequence or Dedicatory Formula below the rim and a band with jaguar-skin spots around the base.

Period

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

Provenance

Maya Lowlands

Medium / Material

Clay

Technique

Modeled, Painting

Dimensions

Height: 18 cm
diameter:13.5 cm

03 References and Exhibitions

References to similar objects

Exhibitions

1. “MAYA ART AND NATURE THORUGH TIME.” David J. Guzmán National Museum of Anthropology, El Salvador (February 26–May 24, 2009)

2. “THE HUMAN FIGURE AND PRE-COLUMBIAN DECORATION.” Spanish Cooperation Training Center, Antigua Guatemala (August 25, 2016–February 26, 2017)

Publications

Exhibition Catalog “Mayan Art and Nature Through Time.” 2009. Fundación Empresarial para la Acción Social (FUNDEMAS). Antiguo Cuscatlán, El Salvador