Fine Arms, Armour, Ethnographic & Asian

Fine Maya Polychrome Fish Plate

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Start price: $900

Estimated price: $2,000 - $3,000

Buyer's premium:

Classic period, circa 300 – 400 AD. Lovely dancing fish god plate, with rattle feet (one rattle still functional). Polychrome painted bands to the outer edge, with a gripping fish figure to center. Applied feet opened to allow a pottery ball inside to rattle. Size 10 1/4" W x 2 1/4" H

ex-Romy Rey collection, London acquired in the 1970s from Chiswick Auctions, London.

Condition: Multiple areas of loss to rim as shown, one foot restored, two out of three rattles do not function.