A Pre-Columbian Maya polychrome plate with glyphs, circa 600 A.D. - 900 A.D. Includes custom Lucite display stand, as shown. This large plate measures about 12" across, and features rattle feet on the bottom. It is nicely decorated in orange, red and black pigment, and depicts a series of 14 readable/decipherable glyphs encircling the top of the plate. The glyphs surround remnants of a central element, showing smoke and fire symbols in red and black emanating toward the four directions fro ...click for details
A fine and large Pre-Columbian Maya drinking vessel featuring carved and incised design elements, circa 600 A.D. 900 A.D. Measuring approximately 5 Ύ tall by about 4 Ύ wide, this rare example exhibits a graceful form of high technical merit on the part of the ancient artisan. It displays carved and incised designs that likely depict the deity Chac, as well as other iconographic and decorative elements. The surface also displays a fine wash of light brown pigment, with dark brown accenting th ...click for details
A very fine figural urn from the ancient Zapotec culture of Pre-Columbian Oaxaca, Mexico, circa 200 A.D. 300 A.D. (perhaps transitional between Monte Alban periods II and III). This example measures approximately 6" tall by about 4 1/4" wide and 5" deep, and is formed as a seated figure with a built in cylindrical urn-like vessel, which opens at the top of the head.
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A fine Pre-Columbian Maya incised, lidded tripod vase of an early type known from the ancient Tiquisate region of Guatemala, circa 300 A.D. 650 A.D. Lidded vases are relatively rare amongst Maya pottery. This example measures nearly 8" tall with the lid in place, by about 5 wide. It features incised designs on both the exterior of the lid and the vase, with red cinnabar rubbed into the incised lines for visual accent as well as symbolic meaning. The graceful form of this vessel features ...click for details
A bold stucco covered, polychrome painted Maya cylinder from Guatemala, circa 600 A.D. 900 A.D. This large example measures nearly 7 3/4" tall and about 4 1/4" wide, and features a red background (alternating subtle vertical striations of lighter and darker red that are hard to notice in the photos) with staggered K'an cross glyphs depicted in black and white all the way around the exterior body of the vessel. ...click for details
