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Title
Orangeware effigy vessel : deity Simian.
Description
A small appliqued cylinder with an anthropomorphic face and a fanged mouth, whiskers incised on the brow, and around the fanged mouth suggests a deity.
Subject
[Effigy pottery--Central America, Ceramic tableware--Central America, Drinking vessels--Central America, Maya art--Central America, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 500 and 800
Title
Orangeware effigy vessel : deity Simian.
Description
A small appliqued cylinder with an anthropomorphic face and a fanged mouth, whiskers incised on the brow, and around the fanged mouth suggests a deity.
Subject
[Effigy pottery--Central America, Ceramic tableware--Central America, Drinking vessels--Central America, Maya art--Central America, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 500 and 800
Title
Orangeware effigy vessel : deity Simian.
Description
A small appliqued cylinder with an anthropomorphic face and a fanged mouth, whiskers incised on the brow, and around the fanged mouth suggests a deity.
Subject
[Effigy pottery--Central America, Ceramic tableware--Central America, Drinking vessels--Central America, Maya art--Central America, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 500 and 800
Title
Orangeware effigy vessel : deity Simian.
Description
A small appliqued cylinder with an anthropomorphic face and a fanged mouth, whiskers incised on the brow, and around the fanged mouth suggests a deity.
Subject
[Effigy pottery--Central America, Ceramic tableware--Central America, Drinking vessels--Central America, Maya art--Central America, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 500 and 800
Title
Orangeware effigy vessel : deity Simian.
Description
A small appliqued cylinder with an anthropomorphic face and a fanged mouth, whiskers incised on the brow, and around the fanged mouth suggests a deity.
Subject
[Effigy pottery--Central America, Ceramic tableware--Central America, Drinking vessels--Central America, Maya art--Central America, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 500 and 800
Title
Orangeware effigy vessel : deity Simian.
Description
A small appliqued cylinder with an anthropomorphic face and a fanged mouth, whiskers incised on the brow, and around the fanged mouth suggests a deity.
Subject
[Effigy pottery--Central America, Ceramic tableware--Central America, Drinking vessels--Central America, Maya art--Central America, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 500 and 800
Title
Maya avian head poison bottle.
Description
A rare earthenware bottle depicting a stylized avian deity's head having a large slightly curved beak, large lidded eyes, curled fangs, and human type ears. The drilled perforations in his ears and at the top of the eyes probably once held decorative elements.
Subject
[Pottery--Central America, Ceramic tableware--Central America, Maya art--Central America, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 500 and 800
Title
Maya avian head poison bottle.
Description
A rare earthenware bottle depicting a stylized avian deity's head having a large slightly curved beak, large lidded eyes, curled fangs, and human type ears. The drilled perforations in his ears and at the top of the eyes probably once held decorative elements.
Subject
[Pottery--Central America, Ceramic tableware--Central America, Maya art--Central America, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 500 and 800
Title
Maya avian head poison bottle.
Description
A rare earthenware bottle depicting a stylized avian deity's head having a large slightly curved beak, large lidded eyes, curled fangs, and human type ears. The drilled perforations in his ears and at the top of the eyes probably once held decorative elements.
Subject
[Pottery--Central America, Ceramic tableware--Central America, Maya art--Central America, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 500 and 800
Title
Maya avian head poison bottle.
Description
A rare earthenware bottle depicting a stylized avian deity's head having a large slightly curved beak, large lidded eyes, curled fangs, and human type ears. The drilled perforations in his ears and at the top of the eyes probably once held decorative elements.
Subject
[Pottery--Central America, Ceramic tableware--Central America, Maya art--Central America, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 500 and 800
Title
Maya avian head poison bottle.
Description
A rare earthenware bottle depicting a stylized avian deity's head having a large slightly curved beak, large lidded eyes, curled fangs, and human type ears. The drilled perforations in his ears and at the top of the eyes probably once held decorative elements.
Subject
[Pottery--Central America, Ceramic tableware--Central America, Maya art--Central America, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 500 and 800
Title
Maya avian head poison bottle.
Description
A rare earthenware bottle depicting a stylized avian deity's head having a large slightly curved beak, large lidded eyes, curled fangs, and human type ears. The drilled perforations in his ears and at the top of the eyes probably once held decorative elements.
Subject
[Pottery--Central America, Ceramic tableware--Central America, Maya art--Central America, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 500 and 800
Title
Maya baluster form vase : three pictoral panels : cormorant, elite Maya male, quetzalcoatl with ancestor.
Description
This transitional ceramic depicts Maya iconography on a foreign vessel. The baluster form with a pedestal foot is a Costa Rican import. The polychrome decorations of a cormorant with jaguar spots, a seated maya, and a feathered serpent with an ancestor emerging from the serpent's mouth are Maya.
Subject
[Vases, Ancient--El Salvador, Pottery--El Salvador, Ceramic tableware--El Salvador, Maya art--El Salvador, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 500 and 800
Title
Maya baluster form vase : three pictoral panels : cormorant, elite Maya male, quetzalcoatl with ancestor.
Description
This transitional ceramic depicts Maya iconography on a foreign vessel. The baluster form with a pedestal foot is a Costa Rican import. The polychrome decorations of a cormorant with jaguar spots, a seated maya, and a feathered serpent with an ancestor emerging from the serpent's mouth are Maya.
Subject
[Vases, Ancient--El Salvador, Pottery--El Salvador, Ceramic tableware--El Salvador, Maya art--El Salvador, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 500 and 800
Title
Maya baluster form vase : three pictoral panels : cormorant, elite Maya male, quetzalcoatl with ancestor.
Description
This transitional ceramic depicts Maya iconography on a foreign vessel. The baluster form with a pedestal foot is a Costa Rican import. The polychrome decorations of a cormorant with jaguar spots, a seated maya, and a feathered serpent with an ancestor emerging from the serpent's mouth are Maya.
Subject
[Vases, Ancient--El Salvador, Pottery--El Salvador, Ceramic tableware--El Salvador, Maya art--El Salvador, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 500 and 800
Title
Maya baluster form vase : three pictoral panels : cormorant, elite Maya male, quetzalcoatl with ancestor.
Description
This transitional ceramic depicts Maya iconography on a foreign vessel. The baluster form with a pedestal foot is a Costa Rican import. The polychrome decorations of a cormorant with jaguar spots, a seated maya, and a feathered serpent with an ancestor emerging from the serpent's mouth are Maya.
Subject
[Vases, Ancient--El Salvador, Pottery--El Salvador, Ceramic tableware--El Salvador, Maya art--El Salvador, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 500 and 800
Title
Maya baluster form vase : three pictoral panels : cormorant, elite Maya male, quetzalcoatl with ancestor.
Description
This transitional ceramic depicts Maya iconography on a foreign vessel. The baluster form with a pedestal foot is a Costa Rican import. The polychrome decorations of a cormorant with jaguar spots, a seated maya, and a feathered serpent with an ancestor emerging from the serpent's mouth are Maya.
Subject
[Vases, Ancient--El Salvador, Pottery--El Salvador, Ceramic tableware--El Salvador, Maya art--El Salvador, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 500 and 800
Title
Maya baluster form vase : three pictoral panels : cormorant, elite Maya male, quetzalcoatl with ancestor.
Description
This transitional ceramic depicts Maya iconography on a foreign vessel. The baluster form with a pedestal foot is a Costa Rican import. The polychrome decorations of a cormorant with jaguar spots, a seated maya, and a feathered serpent with an ancestor emerging from the serpent's mouth are Maya.
Subject
[Vases, Ancient--El Salvador, Pottery--El Salvador, Ceramic tableware--El Salvador, Maya art--El Salvador, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 500 and 800
Title
Elite male wearing a headdress : portrait.
Description
Elite males wore elaborate headdresses. They painted their bodies red and black to indicate they were warriors. Teeth were filed and the incisors were notched for dental inlays of jade and pyrite. This portrait is an architectural element or part of a building.
Subject
[Stucco sculpture--Mexico, Maya sculpture--Mexico, Maya art--Mexico, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 500 and 800
Title
Elite male wearing a headdress : portrait.
Description
Elite males wore elaborate headdresses. They painted their bodies red and black to indicate they were warriors. Teeth were filed and the incisors were notched for dental inlays of jade and pyrite. This portrait is an architectural element or part of a building.
Subject
[Stucco sculpture--Mexico, Maya sculpture--Mexico, Maya art--Mexico, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 500 and 800
Title
Elite male wearing a headdress : portrait.
Description
Elite males wore elaborate headdresses. They painted their bodies red and black to indicate they were warriors. Teeth were filed and the incisors were notched for dental inlays of jade and pyrite. This portrait is an architectural element or part of a building.
Subject
[Stucco sculpture--Mexico, Maya sculpture--Mexico, Maya art--Mexico, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 500 and 800
Title
Elite male wearing a headdress : portrait.
Description
Elite males wore elaborate headdresses. They painted their bodies red and black to indicate they were warriors. Teeth were filed and the incisors were notched for dental inlays of jade and pyrite. This portrait is an architectural element or part of a building.
Subject
[Stucco sculpture--Mexico, Maya sculpture--Mexico, Maya art--Mexico, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 500 and 800
Title
Elite male wearing a headdress : portrait.
Description
Elite males wore elaborate headdresses. They painted their bodies red and black to indicate they were warriors. Teeth were filed and the incisors were notched for dental inlays of jade and pyrite. This portrait is an architectural element or part of a building.
Subject
[Stucco sculpture--Mexico, Maya sculpture--Mexico, Maya art--Mexico, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 500 and 800
Title
Elite male wearing a headdress : portrait.
Description
Elite males wore elaborate headdresses. They painted their bodies red and black to indicate they were warriors. Teeth were filed and the incisors were notched for dental inlays of jade and pyrite. This portrait is an architectural element or part of a building.
Subject
[Stucco sculpture--Mexico, Maya sculpture--Mexico, Maya art--Mexico, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 500 and 800
Title
Maya pedestal polychrome vessel.
Description
The form and the surface decorations of this vessel are very elaborate. The artisan created a teardrop-shaped vessel with a pedestal foot and three equally spaced sunken roundels in the body. He painted the vessel with a cream slip upon which he drew a band of glyphs around the mouth and a stylized profile heads in each roundel with alternating vertical glyphs in a column.
Subject
[Drinking vessels--El Salvador, Pottery--El Salvador, Maya art--El Salvador, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 500 and 800
Title
Maya pedestal polychrome vessel.
Description
The form and the surface decorations of this vessel are very elaborate. The artisan created a teardrop-shaped vessel with a pedestal foot and three equally spaced sunken roundels in the body. He painted the vessel with a cream slip upon which he drew a band of glyphs around the mouth and a stylized profile heads in each roundel with alternating vertical glyphs in a column.
Subject
[Drinking vessels--El Salvador, Pottery--El Salvador, Maya art--El Salvador, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 500 and 800
Title
Maya pedestal polychrome vessel.
Description
The form and the surface decorations of this vessel are very elaborate. The artisan created a teardrop-shaped vessel with a pedestal foot and three equally spaced sunken roundels in the body. He painted the vessel with a cream slip upon which he drew a band of glyphs around the mouth and a stylized profile heads in each roundel with alternating vertical glyphs in a column.
Subject
[Drinking vessels--El Salvador, Pottery--El Salvador, Maya art--El Salvador, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 500 and 800
Title
Maya pedestal polychrome vessel.
Description
The form and the surface decorations of this vessel are very elaborate. The artisan created a teardrop-shaped vessel with a pedestal foot and three equally spaced sunken roundels in the body. He painted the vessel with a cream slip upon which he drew a band of glyphs around the mouth and a stylized profile heads in each roundel with alternating vertical glyphs in a column.
Subject
[Drinking vessels--El Salvador, Pottery--El Salvador, Maya art--El Salvador, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 500 and 800
Title
Maya pedestal polychrome vessel.
Description
The form and the surface decorations of this vessel are very elaborate. The artisan created a teardrop-shaped vessel with a pedestal foot and three equally spaced sunken roundels in the body. He painted the vessel with a cream slip upon which he drew a band of glyphs around the mouth and a stylized profile heads in each roundel with alternating vertical glyphs in a column.
Subject
[Drinking vessels--El Salvador, Pottery--El Salvador, Maya art--El Salvador, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 500 and 800
Title
Maya pedestal polychrome vessel.
Description
The form and the surface decorations of this vessel are very elaborate. The artisan created a teardrop-shaped vessel with a pedestal foot and three equally spaced sunken roundels in the body. He painted the vessel with a cream slip upon which he drew a band of glyphs around the mouth and a stylized profile heads in each roundel with alternating vertical glyphs in a column.
Subject
[Drinking vessels--El Salvador, Pottery--El Salvador, Maya art--El Salvador, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 500 and 800
Title
A pair of Maya plumbate vessels : deity Head : B.
Description
Two similar plumbate ollas were formed from a bulb bottom, a flaring high neck collar rim, and fanged deity applique. The fang deities represent concepts of one or uniqueness and duality or opposition.
Subject
[Drinking vessels--Guatemala, Pottery--Guatemala, Ceramic tableware--Guatemala, Maya art--Guatemala, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 500 and 800
Title
A pair of Maya plumbate vessels : deity Head : B.
Description
Two similar plumbate ollas were formed from a bulb bottom, a flaring high neck collar rim, and fanged deity applique. The fang deities represent concepts of one or uniqueness and duality or opposition.
Subject
[Drinking vessels--Guatemala, Pottery--Guatemala, Ceramic tableware--Guatemala, Maya art--Guatemala, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 500 and 800
Title
A pair of Maya plumbate vessels : deity Head : B.
Description
Two similar plumbate ollas were formed from a bulb bottom, a flaring high neck collar rim, and fanged deity applique. The fang deities represent concepts of one or uniqueness and duality or opposition.
Subject
[Drinking vessels--Guatemala, Pottery--Guatemala, Ceramic tableware--Guatemala, Maya art--Guatemala, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 500 and 800
Title
A pair of Maya plumbate vessels : deity Head : B.
Description
Two similar plumbate ollas were formed from a bulb bottom, a flaring high neck collar rim, and fanged deity applique. The fang deities represent concepts of one or uniqueness and duality or opposition.
Subject
[Drinking vessels--Guatemala, Pottery--Guatemala, Ceramic tableware--Guatemala, Maya art--Guatemala, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 500 and 800
Title
A pair of Maya plumbate vessels : deity Head : B.
Description
Two similar plumbate ollas were formed from a bulb bottom, a flaring high neck collar rim, and fanged deity applique. The fang deities represent concepts of one or uniqueness and duality or opposition.
Subject
[Drinking vessels--Guatemala, Pottery--Guatemala, Ceramic tableware--Guatemala, Maya art--Guatemala, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 500 and 800
Title
A pair of Maya plumbate vessels : deity Head : B.
Description
Two similar plumbate ollas were formed from a bulb bottom, a flaring high neck collar rim, and fanged deity applique. The fang deities represent concepts of one or uniqueness and duality or opposition.
Subject
[Drinking vessels--Guatemala, Pottery--Guatemala, Ceramic tableware--Guatemala, Maya art--Guatemala, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 500 and 800
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