The underside of coiled serpent.
Thirteen <Coiled Serpent>, Limestone, 17"x 16" x 7.5"
This sculpture is a replica of an Aztec stone carving, Coiled Serpent, from Tlalpan, Mexico, 1400 -1521. The Aztec sculpture is carved out of porphyry and is in Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, D.C.
"The complex scales on the underside of the serpent came as a surprise compared with the simple upper half. Undersides were sometimes carefully carved because the design was believed to be in communication with the earth it rested on." - Esther Pasztory, Pre-Columbian Art
