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LOT 2425

Mesoamerican Aztec Jadeite Seated Figure with Offering Bowls

10TH-EARLY 16TH CENTURY A.D.

11 134 in. (5.85 kg, 30 cm).

Seated male figure with legs crossed, arms bent, hands placed in an advanced position each offering a cup; bracelets on the upper arms; ceremonial headdress, round lobed earrings, the body covered only by a fringed loincloth, or ehuatl.

Provenance

From an Italian collector living in Torino, Canada.
Part of her family's collection, 1965.
By descent from her grandmother, 1993.
Private collection, England.

Accompanied by a copy of the Italian cultural export permit.
Accompanied by a signed academic report by Emilio J.
Bejarano Erosa (Director of the Instituto Nacional de Antropología E Historia, Mexico, 1968-1982).
Accompanied by scholarly note TL5340 by Dr Ronald Bonewitz.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by AIAD certificate number no.10287-168435.

Literature

See Instituto Geologico de Mėxico, Catalogo Geográfico de las especies minerales de Mėxico, Boletin 41, Mėxico, 1923; Mirambell, L.E., Tecnicas Lapidarias Prehispanica, Mėxico, 1968; Pohl, J., Aztec, Mixtec and Zapotec Armies, London, 1991; Mirambell, L.E., Materiales Arqueologicos y material prima’, in Serie Arqueologia INAH, Mėxico, 2005; Langenscheidt, A., ‘Los Abrasivos en Mesoamėrica’, Arqueologia Mexicana vol. XIV, No 80 Julio-Agosto, Mėxico, 2006, pp.55-60.

Footnotes

The Aztecs' capital city, Tenochtitlan, established in the 14th century, was located on the present-day site of Mexico City.