Lidded Tripod Vase with Jaguar Head Finial
This lidded jar with tripod legs and a jaguar head as the knobbed handle of the jar was made as a luxury item. During a Maya nobleman or noblewoman’s life, it would have been used to serve hot chocolate as a beverage, and after death it would have been placed in their tomb. It...
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Fine Arts of Ancient Lands, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Herbert L. Lucas, Los Angeles [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Fine Arts of Ancient Lands, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Private collection, June 1991 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 2008, by gift.
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