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Mayan Blackware Vase - PF.0400
Origin: Guatemala
Circa: 600
AD
to 900
AD
Dimensions:
7" (17.8cm) high
Catalogue: V2
Collection: Pre-Columbian
Medium: Terracotta
$9,000.00
Location: United States
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| Description |
The shape of this extraordinary vase is elegant
and serene, but the decoration is unsettling, even
shocking. Propped on either side of the neck are
two creatures (perhaps monkeys, though they
seem somehow human) with prominent male and
female sex organs. They clutch at their bellies
with screaming expressions of agony on their
faces. What fatal liquid did this vase contain that
brought on such a violent reaction? Was it a
poison which these poor creatures are warning
us not to drink? Or was it perhaps a love potion
that has bound these two together forever,
unable to live with each other or without.
- (PF.0400)
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