Figure in Flower Ornament
500–900
- Medium
- earthenware with slip
- Classification
- Jewelry
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 3 cm (1 3/16 in.)
- Culture
- Mexico, Yucatán, Jaina Island region, Campeche, Maya style (250-900)
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Art of the Americas
- Credit line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James B. Wadhams in memory of Miss Helen Humphreys
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
Figures within flowers are one of the most enchanting themes of the Maya ceramic art of Jaina, an island off the western Yucatán coast. The figures, usually males who cross their arms over their bodies, are either radiantly youthful or aged (as here), suggesting a relationship to the life cycle.
