Polychrome Figural Urn with Jaguars and Skulls

600-900 CE (Late Classic)

50.2 cm 44.5 cm 54.6 cm

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The greatest mystery of life is what happens to us when we leave this world. For the ancient Maya, death was not an ending, but the beginning of a lengthy transformation into an ancestral spirit who mediated between the world of the living, and that of the most important gods....

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William P. Palmer III, Portland, Maine, active between 1958 and 1973 [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Merrin Gallery, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Private collection, May 1988 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 2008, by gift.
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