A Maya tortoise Mexico black clay

A Maya tortoise

Mexico

black clay, with applied beads and previously with a bowl surmount,

15cm long,

a Maya vessel with a relief mask, a Teotihuacan candelero, a Maya bowl fragment, a bird head fragment and a pair of figures. (7)

Provenance

Sir Peter Hope KCMG, 1912 - 1999, British Intelligence Officer and later Ambassador to Mexico 1968-72.