Tribal Art & Antiquities - 1st March 2017
Lot 36
A Maya bowl Mexico earthenware
Estimate £300 - £500 | Hammer £380
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Description
A Maya bowl
Mexico
earthenware, with concave sides, the exterior painted with three warrior heads to a white ground, the interior with an orange ground and darker bands,
17cm diameter,
a Maya deep earthenware bowl, with two exterior panels painted a stylised falcon head, a tripod bowl and a deep red-ware lobed vessel. (4)
Provenance
Sir Peter Hope KCMG, 1912 - 1999, British Intelligence Officer and later Ambassador to Mexico 1968-72.
Exhibited
Deep bowl - Ancient Mesoamerica, Precolumbian Mexican and Maya Art, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, 4th June to 31st July 1970. No. 139..