Auction: American Indian & Ethnographic Arts - 2408Location: BostonDate / Time: May 10, 2008 10:00AM
Description:
Pre-Columbian Painted Pottery Cylinder, Maya, Peten, c. 550-950 A.D., painted in ivory and brown-black, depicting two acrobats, each with elaborate headdress and waistband, with primary alternative glyph band above, (restoration, missing tripod legs),ht. 6 1/4, dia. 5 in.
Provenance: Sotheby's, May 16, 1989, lot 185.
Estimate $4,000-6,000