Maya Jade Face Pendant of Maize God
Maya Jade Face Pendant of Maize God
Maya Jade Face Pendant of Maize God
Maya Jade Face Pendant of Maize God
Maya Jade Face Pendant of Maize God
Maya Jade Face Pendant of Maize God
Maya Jade Face Pendant of Maize God
Maya Jade Face Pendant of Maize God
Maya Jade Face Pendant of Maize God
Maya Jade Face Pendant of Maize God
Maya Jade Face Pendant of Maize God
Maya Jade Face Pendant of Maize God
Maya Jade Face Pendant of Maize God
Maya Jade Face Pendant of Maize God
Maya Jade Face Pendant of Maize God
Maya Jade Face Pendant of Maize God
Maya Jade Face Pendant of Maize God
Maya Jade Face Pendant of Maize God Maya Jade Face Pendant of Maize God Maya Jade Face Pendant of Maize God Maya Jade Face Pendant of Maize God Maya Jade Face Pendant of Maize God Maya Jade Face Pendant of Maize God Maya Jade Face Pendant of Maize God Maya Jade Face Pendant of Maize God

Maya Jade Face Pendant of Maize God

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Late Classic Period, circa  600 to 900 AD

Carved as a diminutive human or divine visage in a mottled apple-green to olive-brown jadeite, this Maya face pendant presents a strikingly individualized countenance beneath a raised, banded headdress or coiffure rendered in low relief with volute-like curls at the crown, the heavy-lidded almond eyes, broad nose, and firmly set mouth carved with real physiognomic presence, and the ears fitted with disc-form spools indicating a costume of considerable status. The stone has been worked in the round on all faces, with the reverse left summarily finished and the sides carved to continue the profile of cheek and jaw, while a neatly drilled biconical hole pierces the crown for suspension as a pendant or sewn ornament on an elite costume. It retains a lovely oiled polish across the high points of the face that catches the light against the more matte, iron-flecked recesses of the carving, with light incrustation and mineral staining consistent with long burial and no restoration visible. 
Size: 1-7/8 in. in height (4.8 cm), or 4-3/8 in. (11.1 cm) as mounted on its custom stand.

Compare with a published parallel of a Maya jade Head Pendant in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (acc. 02.18.309), dated 6th–9th century, a triangular apple-green jadeite face of comparable scale carved with a zoomorphic headdress and circular earflares, formed from the same Motagua River Valley material prized throughout the Maya world. 

Ex Cliff Niederer Collection, La Jolla, California. 

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