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Covered Vessel with the Principal Bird and Peccary Heads. Early Classic Maya, Petén region, Guatemala, A.D. 200/300. This beautifully modeled and incised blackware vessel was likely was once the personal possession of a Maya king, who may have used it to serve food at royal feasts or who may have presented it as a gift to a visiting lord as a sign of alliance. Its shape - a lidded dish supported by four legs - was a form frequently produced during the Early Classic period [A.D. 250/450]. These ceramics often display a consistent set of motifs, with birds on their domed lids and inverted peccary (wild pig) heads serving as supports. Ceramic and pigment, 24.8 x 25.4 cm (9 3/4 x 10 in.). Joanne M. and Clarence E. Spanjer and African and Amerindian Curator's Discretionary funds; O. Renard Goltra and National Docent Symposium endowments; African and Amerindian Art Purchase Fund; David Soltker and Irving Dobkin endowments, 2008.206.
Location
The Art Institute of Chicago/Chicago/USA
Unique Identifier
ART538553
Type
Image
Purpose
Public
Size
3765px × 3856px
Photo Credit
The Art Institute of Chicago / Art Resource, NY
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Bird
Ceramic
LID
Maya, Early American (250 BCE-1000 CE)
Pig
Vessel