https://emuseum.gardinermuseum.com/internal/media/dispatcher/17509/fullCalabash effigy vessel650-750Maya artist(s)Overall: 13.1 x 18.2 cm (5 3/16 x 7 3/16 in.)Earthenware with slipGift of George and Helen GardinerOrigin: Yucatán, GuatemalaG83.1.1141Maya Calabash-shapped dish, Late Classic period, with fluted base, slightly flaring cylindrical sides. The front carved and incised with a dignitary in profile and shown to the waist, with striated backward-seeping coiffure held by a band, and plumes hanging at the back. There is another head in profile, possible a glyph, and flanked by other glyphs. Areas of red pigment remaining, and a black band around the rim.
MesoamericaCeramics from Ancestral Abiayala[]Ancestral AbiayalaMesoamerica182859501MayaLate Classic Period (600-850 CE)