Lot 80
Pre-Columbian, Valley of Mexico, Mixtec people, ca. 1200 to 1500 CE. A large, round-bottomed ceramic vessel with a wide, flaring mouth. The interior is painted a darker orange-brown, with a red ring around the rim. On the exterior is a band of highly abstract, glyphoid-like iconography, including a serpentine/avian head that looks like the god Quetzalcoatl, the "Plumed Serpent" or "Feathered Serpent", the snake deity who has many parallels in other Mesoamerican cultures. Worship of Quetzalcoatl helped create an alliance between the Mixtecs, Zapotecs, and Eastern Nahuas in the years immediately prior to and during the Spanish Conquest, with the major pilgrimage center at Cholula, Puebla, being compared to both Rome and Mecca by the Spaniards. Size: 11.5" Diameter x 8" H (29.2 cm x 20.3 cm)
Provenance: private Colorado, USA collection; ex-private St. Petersburg, Florida, USA collection, acquired in July 2019; ex-Artemis Gallery, Louisville, Colorado, USA; ex-Claude Cassuto collection, France, acquired before 1969
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#200537
- Condition: Professionally repaired with small amounts of overpaint along the repair lines. Light surface wear, but otherwise, very nice presentation with good preservation of painted decoration. TL holes to bottom and underneath rim.
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