Pre-Columbian, Central America, Honduras, Ulua Valley, Maya, Late Classic Period, ca. 550 to 900 CE. A hand-built pottery bowl of a beautiful form with a squat, cylindrical body resting upon a trio of tab-shaped feet. The highly burnished vessel exhibits a creamy orange ground with black stripes painted within the thick rim and along the bottom of the base. The exterior walls are densely adorned with a trio of seated, right-facing figures adorned with elaborate feathered headdresses and donning red vestments, black sashes atop their shoulders, and white trousers with black spots; one figure has a large black 'tail' emanating from behind their posterior. Each figure holds one hand out to an abstract altar with a slender base, a circular 'head,' and a conical element protruding downwards towards the figures. Above the figural register is a dense register of intertwined red stripes with black spots filling the interior gaps. Size: 5.625" W x 4.6" H (14.3 cm x 11.7 cm)

Provenance: ex-Thomas A. Cox estate collection; ex-Doyle Auctions, New York, USA (October 13, 1998, lot 97)

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One stable hairline fissure stemming from top of rim, with light abrasions and fading to pigment across interior and exterior surfaces, and small chip to one foot, otherwise intact and very good. Wonderful preservation to pigment across interior and exterior surfaces. Old inventory label underneath base.