Three Faces Ages of Man Mexican Aztec Mask Terracotta Pottery Wall Hanging

Description

Mexican Aztec Mayan Three Faces Ages of Man Terracotta Pottery Clay Wall Hanging
Age undetermined
Material Clay Pottery
Soup can to help determine size and color (soup can not included)
Weighs 1 pound 4 ounces before being carefully packed to ship.
The Aztec were known not only for their sculpture, but also for their expressive and sensitive poetry. The sculpture and poem below provide a glimpse into ways that the cycles of life were portrayed. The three faces represent the cycle of life. In the middle we can see the face of a young man, with all his teeth On either side are two halves of the face of an old, toothless man; these two faces are framed by the symmetrically divided face of a corpse with its eyes closed.
Nezahualcoyotl, the poet-king of Texcoco writes:
I, Nezahualcoyotl, ask this:
Is it true one really lives on the earth?
Not forever on earth, only a little while here.
Though it be jade it falls apart, though it be gold it wears away,
Not forever on earth, only a little while here.
–Michael D. Coe, Mexico: From the Olmecs to the Aztecs (New York: Thames and Hudson, 2002), fifth edition, p. 223.