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A Maya Incised Grayware Vessel, Late Classic, ca. A.D. 550-950
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
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Description
crisply incised with a Hero Twin, seated crosslegged and gesturing with the right hand, wearing a jade bead necklace, loincloth and net turban with plumes in front nibbled by a bird, with a column of four glyphs on the reverse of general Initial glyph style; with remains of resist decoration against the light slip.
Provenance
Dr. Fuzier
Charles Ratton, Paris
Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, 1937
collects
ion of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, No. 38:10, acquired from the above in 1938
Exhibited
Cambridge, MA, Fogg Art Museum, Maya Culture, Great Empire, 600-900 AD, January- February, 1940, cat. no. 82, illus.
Literature
"Pre-Columbian Panorama of the Art of All America", ART NEWS, February 10, 1940, vol. 38, p. 11, illus.
Pal Keleman, Medieval American Art, 1945, pl. 135
Steven A. Nash, with Katy Kline, Charlotta Kotik and Emese Wood, Albright-Knox Art Gallery: Painting and Sculpture from Antiquity to 1942, Buffalo, New York, 1979, pp. 122-123
Pal Keleman, Medieval American Art, 1945, pl. 135
Steven A. Nash, with Katy Kline, Charlotta Kotik and Emese Wood, Albright-Knox Art Gallery: Painting and Sculpture from Antiquity to 1942, Buffalo, New York, 1979, pp. 122-123
Catalogue Note
This vessel is a classic depiction of a youthful Hero Twin, and is executed in a secure and masterful incised style, combining deep firm lines and wispy lighter accents; see Kelemen (1945: pl. 135 b), for a similar vessel.