The vessel ends in flat lips and rests on a hemispherical body. It is engraved with a decoration evoking a hybrid divinity, its head symbolically directed towards the sky and the opening of the receptacle. This divinity can be identified as the Serpent-Jaguar god with numerical symbols on its body. This fantastic animal is stylized here in abstract forms accompanied by numerous ideograms revealing a magical-religious thought calling upon the universal and divine world of the Olmec.
Brown and orange terracotta, smoothed and localized slip, incised decoration.
Broken and glued in several pieces with small missing parts
Olmec, Mexico, 900 - 600 BC
28.5 x 17.6 cm
Neck diameter: 10.4 cm
A thermoluminescence test from the ASA laboratories will be given to the buyer
Provenance :
- Former Samuel Dubiner collection since the 1950s
- Galerie Mermoz, 2005
Lot presented under the temporary importation regime
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