Pre-Columbian Polychrome Tripod Plate, Maya, c. 550-950 A.D., the interior with dignitary seated on a jaguar skin dais and wearing an elaborate headdress, the flared sides with five jawless head glyphs, dark orange and black against a pale orange ground, (some restoration), ht. 4, dia. 12 in.
Provenance: Sotheby's, May 16, 1995, lot 161.
Provenance: Sotheby's, May 16, 1995, lot 161.
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American Indian & Ethnographic Art
7:00 AM PT - May 10th, 2008
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Massachusetts MA .


