Lot 297
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TWO MAYA POLYCHROME POTTERY VESSELS, each painted with pairs of figures forming the letter 'X', the smaller with a bullrush motif within the bowl, the larger of tall cylindrical form with three friezes of stylised gylphs (damaged, two sections missing), Late Classic Period, from the Lake Lojoa region, Santa Barbara, Honduras

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TWO MAYA POLYCHROME POTTERY VESSELS, each painted with pairs of figures forming the letter 'X', the smaller with a bullrush motif within the bowl, the larger of tall cylindrical form with three friezes of stylised gylphs (damaged, two sections missing), Late Classic Period, from the Lake Lojoa region, Santa Barbara, Honduras
7cm. and 20cm. high (2)

Lot Essay

Cf.A vessel identical to the larger, 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.

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