La Collection Deletaille
Maya Codex Vase with Monkey Scribes
Late Classic, circa AD 550 - 950
Lot closes
December 10, 03:25 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 EUR
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26,000 EUR
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La Collection Deletaille
Maya Codex Vase with Monkey Scribes
Late Classic, circa AD 550 - 950
Height: 5 ⅞ in (15 cm)
Lin and Emile Deletaille, acquired by 1979
Thence by descent
Brussels, Royal Museums of Art and History, Trésors du Nouveau Monde, September 15 - December 27, 1992
Cologne, Rautenstrauch - Joest-Museum fur Volkerkunde, Die Welt der Maya: Archäologische Schätze aus drei Jahrtausenden, February 18 - May 23, 1994
Francis Robicsek and Donald M. Hales, Maya Book of the Dead: The Ceramic Codex, Oklahoma, 1981, p. 56, fig. 64
Emile and Lin Deletaille, eds., Trésors du Nouveau Monde, Brussels, 1992, p. 240, fig. 202
Eva and Arne Eggebrecht, Nikolai Grube, eds., Die Welt der Maya: Archäologische Schätze aus drei Jahrtausenden, Hildesheim, 1994, fig. 292
Andrea Stone and Marc Zender, Reading Maya Art; a Hieroglyphic Guide to Ancient Maya Painting and Sculpture, London and New York, 2011, p. 112, no. 4, drawing detail
mayavase.com, ‘K0760’
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