9316. Vera Cruz Pottery Cormorant Duck

South central region, Late Classic period, Ca. 600 to 900 AD.

A buff clay sacred vessel, the bird is symbolic for the watery surface of the underworld. A most interesting vignette on the wing is a carved scene where a Priest or Warrior is about to sacrifice (behead) a captive on a scaffolding.

Size: 6-1/2 inches Height x 8 inches Length + custom mount

This pouring vessel probably contained a drug which induced relaxation to calm the victims before the ceremony

Good deposits. Some repair

Archive on mayavase.com a precolumbian portfolio by Justin kerr: Image: 9209 File date: 2010-04-28, Caption: Veracruz Duck, vessel in form of a duck. Insert: wing, Individual seated on scaffold about to be decapitated. ht 16 cm.

Ex Mary Warburg Collection

Very rare iconography.

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