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Maya

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Maya, 550-950

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Maya

Vessel

Maya, 550-950

Physical Qualities Earthenware, red and black pigment, 2 3/8 × 9 1/4 in. (6 × 23.5 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Edith Black, Potomac, Maryland, in Memory of her Husband, Jack Black
Object Number 1997.255
bowl shape with painted decorations in red and black in the interior: zoomorphs on bottom, birds and crustaceans divided by vertical bars in a register around the lip

Inscribed: '1981.44.17' painted in red on white ground and 'P-163' in black on bottom

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2000–2000

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