Polychrome cylinder vase, Late Classic Period, ca. 700 - 900 AD ·  Guatemala, Petén area, El Zotz / Chinochultun, Maya · ID: 3052937

Description

ceramic with cream-colored slip, painted in orange-red, deep red, and black, rest.

The vessel wall is encircled by six male figures. Three of them wear black facial masks and comb-like feathered headdresses. A fourth figure lies at their feet, having lost both mask and headdress. The two remaining figures are distinguished by particularly elaborate headdresses and by jaguar heads carried on their backs as trophies. All figures hold ring-shaped objects (made of shell or stone) in their hands.

Kerr describes the depicted figures as “combatant boxers each using conch shell hand weapons - boxing hand to hand”.

The object Polychrome cylinder vase, Late Classic Period, ca. 700 - 900 AD with the object ID 3052937 was part of the auction Auction 106 on April 25, 2026. The object with the lot number 46 achieved a sales price of EUR 13,000 with an asking price of EUR 12,000.

Comparing literature

Publications

Kerr, Justin, Maya Vase Data Base, An Archive of Rollout Photographs, K 700 (1998); Robicsek, Francis, Donald M. Hales, The Maya Book of the Dead, University of Virginia Art Museum, 1981, fig. 17b; Kuchta, Ronald A., Treasures of Pre-Columbian Art, Collection of Janos Szekeres, New York, p. 60 f.

Notices

This object is subject to the Cultural Heritage Protection Act. Export documents are required for export (subjected to a fee).