Olmec Jade Mask
Vera Cruz
Circa 1100 - 500 BC
Height 3 3/4"
Provenance: Ron Messick, Santa Fe, NM, 1994
Private collection Connecticut
A beautiful example with cinnabar in the devices. The works naturalistic features most likely connected to cycles of agriculture, birth, death, and rebirth associated with fertility and the afterlife.
Vera Cruz
Circa 1100 - 500 BC
Height 3 3/4"
Provenance: Ron Messick, Santa Fe, NM, 1994
Private collection Connecticut
A beautiful example with cinnabar in the devices. The works naturalistic features most likely connected to cycles of agriculture, birth, death, and rebirth associated with fertility and the afterlife.
Vera Cruz
Circa 1100 - 500 BC
Height 3 3/4"
Provenance: Ron Messick, Santa Fe, NM, 1994
Private collection Connecticut
A beautiful example with cinnabar in the devices. The works naturalistic features most likely connected to cycles of agriculture, birth, death, and rebirth associated with fertility and the afterlife.