Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas - 21st September 2022
Lot 51
A Maya cylindrical vessel
Estimate £400 - £600 | Hammer £380
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Description
A Maya cylindrical vessel
Lake Lojoa Region, Santa Barbara, Honduras, circa 250 - 900 AD
pottery with a slightly flared rim, decorated with six pairs of embracing figures and with glyphs,
20cm high.
Provenance
Christie's, London, 11 October 1991, lot 297.
Ian Auld Collection, London.
Estate Collection of Ian Auld, 12 September 2019.
Romy Rey Collection, London.
cf. An identical vessel in the Middle America Research Institute, no.35.6981, from the Lake Lojoa region, Santa Barbara, Honduras, illustrated in Ferdinand Anton, Indian Art in Middle America, Greenwich, 1964, pl.137.