Mayan culture bowl. Honduras-El Salvador, 500-800... Lot 23
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Mayan culture bowl. Honduras-El Salvador, 500-800 A.D.
Polychrome terracotta.
Measures: 9 x 20 cm (diameter).
Unlike monuments (which were intended to be seen by all), ceramics enjoyed great freedom among the Maya, since they were intended for private use, whether for daily or funerary purposes. Mayan pottery covers a wide variety of typologies, both for use and rituals, pieces decorated with reliefs and incised motifs, monochrome engobes or with figurative polychrome motifs, later on. They were always pieces made by modeling, since this culture did not know the potter's wheel. The colors used were always engobes, with a clay base, and the vessels were fired at a low temperature of approximately 800º C.
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