Funeral Urn with Figurative Cover

Mosquita culture, Pre-Columbian

700 - 900

  • Titles Funeral Urn with Figurative Cover (Descriptive)
  • Medium earthenware
  • Dimensions Overall: 16 x 9 5/8 in. (40.6 x 24.4 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of an Anonymous Donor, 1982.148a-b
  • Work Type lid
  • Classification Components

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Seated Female with Bowl, Jalisco culture, Pre-Columbian, fired clay and slip
Fine line graving of a classical Maya noble in a seated, cross-legged position from the Lsle of Jaina. The face shows pear shaped eyes with the pupil at the front and a slightly hooked nose and the down turned mouth. He wears a turban and round ear ornaments. There is a single bead on his chest and he wears a heavy girdle tied in back. His right hand rests on his knee with the fingers bent in the classic position. The engraving has been filled with red.
Earthenware bowl with brownish clay body under black slip, burnished, with white pigment rubbed into incised designs located around shoulder and under rim. Bowl has wide mouth with flaring rim, and three hollow, conical rattle feet.
A large plate. The tondo is painted, in red and black, with the figure of a dignitary seated cross-legged on a throne. One arm crosses his chest; the other is on his hip. He wears a flowing headdress with the frontal flume of the Underworld water lily while multiple long black plumes stretched out behind. His girdle and breech cloth are black and white with black ribbons. The wide border, framed by a red rim and basal band, contains four groups of Primary Standars repeat glyphs and numerical symbols in red and black. All on light orange grounf. Some fire clouding.