Maya Huehueteotl Vessel
Yucatan, Southern Mexico
550 - 900 AD
Provenance: Private collection, FL
Depicting the "Old God” or “Fire God” an important deity. His facing is wrinkled, showing a loss of teeth. Arms and legs display the thinness of the elderly. Nicely burnished orange slip with great mineralization and earthen incrustations throughout and intact. A very similar example is in the Arizona Museum of Natural History.
Yucatan, Southern Mexico
550 - 900 AD
Provenance: Private collection, FL
Depicting the "Old God” or “Fire God” an important deity. His facing is wrinkled, showing a loss of teeth. Arms and legs display the thinness of the elderly. Nicely burnished orange slip with great mineralization and earthen incrustations throughout and intact. A very similar example is in the Arizona Museum of Natural History.
Yucatan, Southern Mexico
550 - 900 AD
Provenance: Private collection, FL
Depicting the "Old God” or “Fire God” an important deity. His facing is wrinkled, showing a loss of teeth. Arms and legs display the thinness of the elderly. Nicely burnished orange slip with great mineralization and earthen incrustations throughout and intact. A very similar example is in the Arizona Museum of Natural History.