01 Photograph Gallery

02 Object Information

Description

Codex style vase (red and black on cream) decorated with an underworld scene. In one of its sides appears the figure of a jaguar standing in left profile, surrounded by star symbols, with its jaws open, its tongue sticking out and wearing a sacrificial or wahy [way or waay] scarf .

On the opposite side of the vase, the torso of a character in right profile with a black headdress decorated with the upper jaw of a long-lipped monster and long feathers inside of, what appears to be, a structure made of bones.

The character is surrounded by nucleated eyes and wears round earflares, a necklace of made of eyeballs, a square breastplate, and wristbands made of tubular beads. The right arm is bent over the chest and the left holds a triadic plate with a femur, a severed hand and a nucleated eye). Both characters are separated from each other by two vertical texts, one forming a T of 7 glyphs and the other forming a column of 5 glyphs.

*Some sections of the surface were repainted during its restoration, prior to entering La Ruta Maya collection.

Period

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

Provenance

Maya Lowlands

Medium / Material

Clay

Technique

Modeled, Painting, Slip

Dimensions

Height: 14.5 cm
Diameter: 11.5 cm

03 References and Exhibitions

References to similar objects

Exhibitions

1. Financiera de Occidente (October 2010 – April 2011)

2. “MAYA, FROM DAWN TO DUSK” (MAYA de l’aube au crépuscule). Musée du quai Branly in Paris, France (June 21 – October 2, 2011)

3. Financiera de Occidente (November 2011 – August 2012)

4. “THE POWER OF THE JAGUAR IN THE MAYA UNIVERSE.” DESIGN CENTER, Guatemala (January 30- February 28, 2013)

5. “PRE-COLUMBIAN BIODIVERSITY, THE MYSTERIES OF THE JUNGLE”. Spanish Cooperation Training Center, Antigua Guatemala (August 17, 2017- February 25, 2018)

Publications

1. Smithsonian Magazine. “Probing The Mysteries of The Maya“. May 2011.

2. Magazine MAYA de l’aube au crépuscule. Connaissance des Arts, No. 497. 2011. Page 34. París, France.

3. Exhibition catalogue “MAYA de l’aube au crépuscule”. 2011. Musée du quai Branly. Paris, France.  Page 201.