Vessel
Category
Ceramics
Date
Unknown
Materials
Pottery
Measurements
5.25 in (Height); 6.5 in (Diameter)
Place of origin
Uxmal
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Hughenden, Buckinghamshire
NT 428317
Summary
Pottery bone vessel from Uxmal, Mexico, the sides incised with punched pattern and bone motifs. Piece of paper attached to inside, with note in Lady Beaconsfield's handwriting '2 vases from the ruins of/ Uxmal in central Mexico/ given by Col Fancourt 1864/ Superintendent at Honduras'. See also NT/HUG/C/5.
Provenance
Given to the Disraelis by Col Fancourt (Superintendent at Honduras) in 1864.