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Vessel with Head emerging from serpent jaws at The British Museum, London

Title


Vase, vessel made of pottery, with human head emerging from serpent jaws.




Artist


Unknown




Date


Post - Classic, 900 - 1521




Medium


Pottery




Dimensions


H:12.7cm W:12cm




Accession #


Am1844,0720.971




Credit


Purchased from Captain Evan Nepean




McEwan 1994, p.32'A human emerging from the jaws of a serpentine dragon is a recurring image in Mesoamerican art. Among their many other connotations, snakes were seen as a metaphor for the umbilical cord connecting new life on the earthly plane with the hidden, spiritual sources of creation. Such images, therefore, evoke ancestral connections and call attention to the threshold dividing the human domain from the invisible but ever-present ancestral spirits.'

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