Pre-Columbian, southern Mexico to Guatemala, Maya; El Salvador, Maya, Copador type, Late Classic Period, ca. 550 to 900 CE. A lovely set of hand-built pottery bowls from the ancient Maya. First is a Copador type bowl with a round but stable base and a thick rim surrounding the deep basin. The exterior surfaces are decorated with a register of large rectangular panels with petite circles within every other panel as well as a program of abstract, right-facing anthropomorphic figures with raised hands. The second and larger vessel is a flat-bottomed mug - used for consuming the Maya cacao drink - with fluted walls along the lower body and a flared rim on top. The Copador bowl is presented in hues of red and black atop a light orange ground, and the cacao mug bears a uniform brown color. Size (fluted mug): 4.8" W x 4.375" H (12.2 cm x 11.1 cm); (Copador): 5.3" Diameter x 3.375" H (13.5 cm x 8.6 cm)

Provenance: private Lumberton, Texas, USA collection, acquired before 2010; ex-Heritage Auctions

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#169624

Small nicks and light abrasions to Copador bowl with light fading to pigment, otherwise intact and very good. Dozens of nicks around rim and body of fluted vessel, with fading to pigment in several areas, softening to flutes on one side, and pitting across most surfaces. Nice preservation to pigment on Copador bowl. Old inventory labels beneath fluted vessel.