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House-Shaped Tobacco Flask with High-Relief Figure600–900 CE

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Rectangular ceramic vessel with cream and red slip surface, featuring a low-relief molded figure with large ear ornaments and raised arms on the front face
Small ceramic vessel with square body and narrow neck, cream-colored with red pigment traces; front panel features a vertical column of five Maya glyphs in low relief; crosshatch pattern on shoulder; small modeled figure at upper left edge.
Ceramic vessel with rectangular body and narrow neck, cream-colored with red pigment残 remaining in molded relief. Body decorated with a grid of ten Maya glyphic blocks arranged in two columns, with a diamond lattice pattern around the sloped shoulder.
Ceramic vessel with square body and narrow cylindrical neck, cream-colored with red pigment traces; front panel features five vertically stacked molded Maya glyphs in low relief, with a crosshatch-patterned collar band below the neck.
Title
House-Shaped Tobacco Flask with High-Relief Figure
Culture
Maya
Date Made
600–900 CE
Period
Late Classic Period
Medium
Slip-painted ceramic with postfire-applied pigment
Dimensions
5 1/8 × 3 × 2 in. (13.02 × 7.62 × 5.08 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Ann Ziff
Accession Number
M.2019.357.4
Classification
Ceramics
Collecting Area
Art of the Ancient Americas