La Collection Deletaille
Important Maya Three-part Effigy Vessel
Early Classic, circa AD 250 - 450
Lot closes
December 10, 03:23 PM GMT
Estimate
75,000 - 100,000 EUR
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65,000 EUR
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La Collection Deletaille
Important Maya Three-part Effigy Vessel
Early Classic, circa AD 250 - 450
Height: 11 ⅜ in (29 cm)
Fine Arts of Ancient Lands, New York
Emile Deletaille, Brussels, acquired from the above in September 1975
Thence by descent
Brussels, Société Générale de Banque, Art de Mésoamérique - Meso-Amerikaanse kunst, November 17, 1976 - January 8, 1977
Brussels, Royal Museums of Art and History, Trésors du Nouveau Monde, September 15 - December 27, 1992
Société Générale de Banque, Art de Mésoamérique - Meso-Amerikaanse kunst, Brussels, 1976, fig. 173
Gerald Berjonneau, Emile Deletaille, and Jean-Louis Sonnery, Rediscovered Masterpieces of Mesoamerica, Boulogne, 1985, p. 225, fig. 341
Nicholas M. Hellmuth, “Corpus of Maya Art, in Site Reports, and in Museums and Private Collections, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, USA, Canada, Europe and Asia”, Vol. II, Maya Cylindrical Tripods and Related Early Classic Art: ICONOGRAPHY AND FORM, Foundation for Latin American Anthropological Research, Culver City, 1985, p. 172
Karl A. Taube, “A Ritual Clown of the Early Classic Maya Court”, in Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts, 1991, vol. 66, no. 4, p. 27, fig. 11
Emile and Lin Deletaille, eds., Trésors du Nouveau Monde, Brussels, 1992, p. 219, fig. 172
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