authentic POLYCHROMED MAYAN DISH-El Salvador ethnographic terracotta art pottery For Sale
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authentic POLYCHROMED MAYAN DISH-El Salvador ethnographic terracotta art pottery:
$320.00
Measures 11.5\" wide, 1\" high.
This comes from a scholar\'s large vintage collection containing both reproduction and original pieces, I will continue to list his historical pottery collection. many of these pieces had remnants of handmade paper that was used for wrapping.
This is an authentic polychromed Mayan dish designed to be used in
Mayan ceremonies.
For a short while, during the mid twentieth
century these \'authentic\' Mayan bowls
were made by the Salvadoran people as they
had been made centuries earlier.
It is often nearly impossible for an amateur collector
to distinguish these, now, fifty plus year old Mayan
replicas from pieces many centuries older.
Each was handmade slowly and each was unique.
There was no assembly line production. Changes in the
political climate at the end of the seventies and the
nationalization of many industries also ended the
production of these artifacts. Extremely few were made -
even fewer remain and appear on the marketplace.
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