Description:

Pre-Columbian, Guatemala, Peten Basin, Maya, Late Classic Period, ca. 550 to 900 CE. A hand-built pottery bowl with a flat base, squat walls, a thick rim, and a shallow basin. The interior of the bowl is decorated in pale-orange slip with a ring of red pigment around the rim. The orange-slipped exterior is adorned with two panels of black-painted glyphs. The larger glyph panel features six vertical spots indicative of blood drops and sacred steps, a glyph reading "ju-li," meaning "to arrive," and a glyph reading "t'abay," meaning to ascend, raise, or finish. Size: 8.9" W x 2.875" H (22.6 cm x 7.3 cm).

Provenance: private California, USA collection

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#145689

  • Condition: Repair to one large fissure across basin and rim with light resurfacing and overpainting along break lines. Minor nicks and abrasions to rim, base, and walls, with light fading to original pigmentation, and light overpainting over some glyph details. Nice earthen deposits and root marks throughout.

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