A Mixtec incense burner

A terracotta polychrome incense burner with two jaguar heads on the sides and two other decorated handles on the opposite sides. The bowl is painted in a refined style and  decorated with a geometrical and figural decor in red, white, black and orange paint. Mixtec culture, Mexico, Cholula region, dating 1300 – 1500 CE.

Literature
‘Children of the plume serpent’ Los Angeles County Museum, 2012, page 197. ‘Aztecs’ Moctezuma and Olguin, 2003.

Provenance
Ex private collection mr. W. Rhoon, Eindhoven, collected in Mexico before 1984.

Size
Height 11 cm., diam. 23 cm.

Price
€ 4.500,-

Condition
Good, Repairs at one jaguar head and one handle and at the rim. wear of old age, nice patina of old age.