Teotihuacan incised tripod brownware vessel, Early Classic, ca. A.D. 250-450

the thin curving walls finely etched, showing three depictions of the elaborately attired Storm God wearing the Tlaloc goggles, with massive feathered headdress and holding a shield, before him sits a plump bird, the basal band with alternating half star fish emblems, referring to warfare or fertility, the etched areas reddened. 

The Manhattan Galleries, Important Masterpieces of Pre-Columbian Art, May 14, 1983, lot 18, illus.

Purportedly exhibited at Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York, prior to 1983

Overall very good, has one 2 1/2 in. area at rim of breaks , small chip on rim . Nicely executed.
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For a vessel with the same design, see Berrin and Pasztory (1993:250, pl. 134).