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Incensário com rei sentado

300–400 CE
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 360
Os grandes incensários de cerâmica—recipientes para queimar copal e incenso—estão entre as esculturas de argila cozida mais complexas criadas pelos antigos povos maias do sul do México e territórios adjacentes da Guatemala. Esse incensário, feito de duas partes, pode ser o retrato de um rei maia sentado em majestade. Leva uma pluma impressionante na cabeça e brincos ornamentais e segura uma bandeja com oferendas. A fumaça, cuja função era levar as oferendas aos espíritos e divindades no reino sobrenatural, era um elemento essencial de todas as cerimônias religiosas maias.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Título: Incensário com rei sentado
  • Data: Século IV
  • Geografia: Guatemala
  • Cultura: Maia
  • Meio: Cerâmica
  • Dimensões: 80 cm de altura
  • Linha de créditos: Doação de Charles e Valerie Diker, 1999
  • Número de acesso: 1999.484.1a, b
  • Curatorial Department: The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing

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