Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas - 21st September 2022
Lot 56
A Maya shallow bowl
Estimate £250 - £350 | Hammer £220
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Description
A Maya shallow bowl
Mexico, circa 250 - 750 AD
clay, with a painted seven point motif and bands,
33cm diameter,
and a Maya shallow bowl, circa 100 BC - 300 AD, painted a sun face, tripod feet missing, 29cm diameter. (2)
Provenance
Larger - Sir Peter Hope KCMG, 1912 - 1999, British Intelligence Officer and later Ambassador to Mexico 1968 - 1972; Woolley and Wallis, Salisbury, Tribal Art, 1 March 2017, lot 42.
Smaller - Sotheby's, London, 21 June 1993, lot 233 part.
Romy Rey Collection, London.