Classic Veracruz, Mexico, 600 to 900 AD
Fired clay
Height 6 inches (15.2 cm)
Provenance: Earl Lauren, Berkeley, California, 1963; J. Schwartz, Marina del Rey, California; Riverbend Gallery, Athens, Georgia, 23 January 2016; private collection, Honolulu, Hawaii
The head is broken from a larger hollow figure, open at the back and behind the crown where the wall has parted, leaving the face and headdress standing as a shell. The face is worked with ringed eyes above a wide mouth showing two squared teeth, and above it sits a second zoomorphic head with its own bulging eyes, a blunt snout, and a row of rounded knobs ranged across the top like a crest, so the wearer appears within the open jaws of the animal. The clay is a pale buff with heavy grey mineral deposit crusted into the recesses of the eyes, the mouth, and the knobbed crest, laid down by groundwater rather than by firing.
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Classic Veracruz, Mexico, 600 to 900 AD
Fired clay
Height 6 inches (15.2 cm)
Provenance: Earl Lauren, Berkeley, California, 1963; J. Schwartz, Marina del Rey, California; Riverbend Gallery, Athens, Georgia, 23 January 2016; private collection, Honolulu, Hawaii
The head is broken from a larger hollow figure, open at the back and behind the crown where the wall has parted, leaving the face and headdress standing as a shell. The face is worked with ringed eyes above a wide mouth showing two squared teeth, and above it sits a second zoomorphic head with its own bulging eyes, a blunt snout, and a row of rounded knobs ranged across the top like a crest, so the wearer appears within the open jaws of the animal. The clay is a pale buff with heavy grey mineral deposit crusted into the recesses of the eyes, the mouth, and the knobbed crest, laid down by groundwater rather than by firing.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
