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House-Shaped Tobacco Flask Depicting Lord with Tobacco Plant600–900 CE

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Small rectangular ceramic vessel with a cream and rust-orange slip surface, featuring dense relief-carved imagery of a crouching figure or deity on the front panel beneath a segmented molded cornice
Ceramic vessel with square body and short cylindrical neck, cream slip with red-orange earthen deposits; front panel features a molded low-relief Maya figure in elaborate headdress with scrollwork at right, framed by a raised cornice border.
Title
House-Shaped Tobacco Flask Depicting Lord with Tobacco Plant
Culture
Maya
Date Made
600–900 CE
Period
Late Classic Period
Medium
Slip-painted ceramic with postfire-applied pigment
Dimensions
3 1/2 × 2 1/4 × 1 1/4 in. (8.89 × 5.72 × 3.18 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Ann Ziff
Accession Number
M.2019.357.8
Classification
Ceramics
Collecting Area
Art of the Ancient Americas