A Maya cylindrical vessel

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.