Offering or incense bowl, Late Classical or Early Post-Classical period, ca. 600 - 1250 AD · Mexico / Belize, Maya · ID: 3052947
Starting price
EUR 6,000
Estimated price
EUR 12,000
Provenance
Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich, 25 June 1988, lot 68German Private Collection, Munich
Size
H: 19,3 cm
D: 27 cm
H: 7.6 inch
D: 10.6 inch
Description
light beige ceramic with remnants of white pigment and calcareous deposits, loss, restorations to the right ear and ear plug, as well as to the trunk, rest.
A shallow, recessed bowl with thorn-like projections along the lower rim, set on a cylindrical base with an elaborately pierced front, depicting the highly stylized head of the rain god “Chaac”. He is shown with a trunk-like, upward-curving nose and two downward-curving fangs.
Expertise
Thermoluminescence report, No. 098804, R. Kotalla, Haigerloch, 4 May 1988
Notices
This object is subject to the UNESCO Cultural Heritage Protection Act. Export documents are required for export (subjected to a fee).