Lladró Aztec Dance Sculpture 01002027 | Limited Edition 250 | Francisco Polope | 81cm | New
(RETAIL PRICE: $26,610 USD)
✨ 250 Pieces. One Ancient Tradition. Captured Forever in Spanish Porcelain.
Eighty-one centimeters of the most ambitious, the most culturally significant, and the most completely extraordinary figurative porcelain sculpture Lladró has ever dedicated to the pre-Hispanic world. Rich green feathers. Obsidian accents. The solemn, powerful, completely alive energy of the Aztec ceremonial dance — made permanent in matte and gloss porcelain by one of the house's most gifted sculptors.
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The Aztec dance was never simply a dance. It was a sacred act — a conversation between the human world and the divine, a ritual of connection with the forces of nature, a ceremony of profound spiritual power performed by warriors and priests who understood that the movements of the body could open pathways to something far larger than the individual performing them.
For centuries after the conquest of Mexico, this tradition survived. It adapted. It transformed. And it endured — carrying within its complex choreography and its extraordinary costuming the complete spiritual vocabulary of one of the greatest civilizations the Americas ever produced.
Lladró — the Valencia house that has spent over seven decades translating the most significant subjects in human culture into the finest Spanish handcrafted porcelain — understood immediately that this tradition deserved a tribute of the highest possible artistic ambition and the most complete craft commitment. The result is the Aztec Dance Sculpture — reference 01002027, sculpted by Francisco Polope, produced in a strictly limited edition of just 250 pieces worldwide, and standing at a commanding 81 centimeters tall.
Francisco Polope brings to this piece the specific combination of cultural sensitivity and sculptural ambition that a subject of this depth and this significance demands. The Aztec dancer he has captured is not a generalized figure in costume. It is a specific, completely realized human being in the full expression of a sacred ceremony — every element of the costume rendered with the fidelity of scholarship, every movement of the body captured with the sensitivity of an artist who has understood not just what the dance looks like but what it means.
The feathers — the most immediately dramatic and the most visually extraordinary element of the traditional Aztec ceremonial costume — are rendered in the rich green tones that the most sacred feathers of pre-Hispanic tradition possessed, achieved through advanced airbrushing techniques that create depth and vibrancy across the complex three-dimensional surface of the porcelain plumage. These are not painted details. They are the result of a specific and demanding technical process — the application of color in multiple graduated layers that build up the specific quality of depth and luminosity that a single flat application could never achieve.
The obsidian accents — obsidian, that volcanic glass that the Aztecs considered one of the most sacred and the most powerful materials available to them, associated with protection, with truth, and with the dispelling of negative forces — appear throughout the piece with the specific dark, brilliant quality of the actual stone, evoking the mystical properties that gave this material its central place in Aztec spiritual practice.
The combination of matte and gloss finishes — applied with the specific purpose of creating added texture and realism across the different elements of the costume and the figure — is one of the most technically demanding surface treatments available in the Lladró decorating tradition. Each surface reads differently — the matte areas possessing the warm, absorbed quality of skin and natural fiber, the gloss areas possessing the reflective, precious quality of decorated surface and ceremonial ornament. Together they create a composition of extraordinary visual complexity and extraordinary visual truth.
At 81 centimeters tall, 56 centimeters wide, 53 centimeters deep, and weighing 19.3 kilograms of finest Spanish handcrafted porcelain, this is a sculpture of genuinely monumental physical presence — a work that does not simply occupy a space but defines it, transforming every room it enters into a space of cultural weight and genuine artistic authority.
250 pieces. Worldwide. Total. Ever.
THE AZTEC CEREMONIAL TRADITION — WHY THIS SUBJECT DEMANDED THIS TREATMENT
The Danza Azteca — the ceremonial dance tradition of the indigenous peoples of Mexico — is one of the most visually spectacular and the most spiritually significant of all the living ceremonial traditions that survive from the pre-Hispanic world. The elaborate feathered headdresses. The intricate breastplates. The obsidian ornaments. The specific, complex choreography that encodes in movement an entire cosmological understanding of the relationship between human beings, nature, and the divine.
This tradition has been practiced continuously — through conquest, through colonization, through centuries of cultural pressure — because its practitioners understood that it carried within it something too important to lose. A complete way of understanding the world. A complete practice of connection with the forces that sustain human life. A complete artistic tradition of extraordinary beauty and extraordinary spiritual depth.
Lladró has honored that tradition with the most complete and the most completely committed artistic tribute it knows how to make — a limited edition of 250 pieces in the finest Spanish handcrafted porcelain, at the largest scale the house applies to figurative sculpture, with every technical resource at its disposal deployed in the service of truth, beauty, and genuine cultural respect.
✦ KEY FEATURES
✦ Limited Edition of only 250 pieces worldwide — one of the most exclusive and the most culturally significant editions in the modern Lladró catalog
✦ Sculpted by Francisco Polope — Lladró sculptor whose cultural sensitivity and sculptural ambition are perfectly matched to this extraordinary subject
✦ Monumental scale — 81 cm tall, 56 cm wide, 19.3 kg — a room-defining sculptural presence of genuine museum authority
✦ Rich green feathers via advanced airbrushing — multiple graduated color layers creating depth and vibrancy impossible with standard application
✦ Obsidian accents — evoking the sacred volcanic glass of Aztec tradition with its associations of protection and spiritual power
✦ Combined matte and gloss finishes — different surface qualities creating texture, realism, and visual complexity across the entire composition
✦ Intricate breastplate and ceremonial costume detail — rendered with the fidelity of scholarship and the skill of master porcelain artisans
✦ Original display base included — formal, complete presentation for a work of this scale and significance
✦ Insurance included — fully covered worldwide delivery of a piece weighing 19.3 kilograms
✦ Handcrafted in Valencia, Spain — 70+ years of Lladró artisanal excellence behind every element
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| Brand | Lladró |
| SKU | 01002027 |
| Name | Aztec Dance Sculpture |
| Sculptor | Francisco Polope |
| Edition | Strictly Limited to 250 Pieces Worldwide |
| Finish | Combined Matte and Gloss |
| Special Techniques | Advanced Airbrushing — Obsidian Accents |
| Height | 81 cm / 31.89 inches |
| Width | 56 cm / 22.05 inches |
| Length | 53 cm / 20.87 inches |
| Weight | 19.3 kg / 42.55 lb |
| Base | Included |
| Insurance | Included |
| Origin | Handcrafted in Valencia, Spain |
| Condition | Brand New in Original Box — First Quality |
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⚡ A WORD ON AVAILABILITY
Two hundred and fifty pieces. Worldwide. For a work of this scale, this technical complexity, this cultural significance, and this level of craft investment — 250 is a number of genuine and profound scarcity. Each piece required the work of multiple specialist craftspeople working in concert across an extended production process. When these 250 examples have been placed with their owners, the Aztec Dance Sculpture will never be made again. The edition is closed permanently. If this sculpture has found its way to your attention, the decisiveness the moment deserves is simply to act.
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