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Tobacco Flask Depicting a Seated Dignitary600–900 CE

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Small flattened ceramic vessel with cream and brick-red slip, featuring a molded oval relief panel depicting a large fanged creature and humanoid figures
Small ceramic flask with flattened globular body and short neck, covered in red slip, featuring a molded relief panel depicting a central figure flanked by two elaborately feathered or winged figures in low relief.
Title
Tobacco Flask Depicting a Seated Dignitary
Culture
Maya
Date Made
600–900 CE
Period
Late Classic Period
Medium
Slip-painted ceramic with postfire-applied pigment
Dimensions
3 1/2 × 3 1/2 × 1 1/4 in. (8.89 × 8.89 × 3.18 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Ann Ziff
Accession Number
M.2019.357.12
Classification
Ceramics
Collecting Area
Art of the Ancient Americas