Description:

Pre-Columbian, El Salvador, Maya, Early to Late Classic, ca. 550 to 650 CE. A twin-handled jar with a broad mouth and sharply carinated shoulder, its walls enlivened by bold red and black geometrics over an orange-burnished ground. The decorative program presents step-fret bands and pendant rectangles above a register of ticks and dotted motifs, all framed by precise linear borders. Similar vessels are well attested across western El Salvador and within the Copan sphere of influence in Mesoamerica. Size: 7.75" W x 5.3" H (19.7 cm x 13.5 cm)

"San Miguel El Salvador 4/8/69" written on the base

Provenance: private collection of S. Saunders, Nogales Arizona, USA collection before 2000

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  • Condition: Perforation 0.75" wide through the base. Hairline fissures radiating from the rim. Chips and abrasions throughout, with fading to motifs.

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