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Among Maya noble families, finely painted ceramic vessels were used as fancy tableware, treasured gifts that secured the support of allies, and funerary offerings placed in tombs. Accordingly, the vessels’ imagery varies from religious themes to scenes of courtly life. Here, two attendants kneel before an enthroned nobleman who wears an enormous bird-head headdress.
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155455
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Painted Vase with Ruler and Scribe
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155455
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Painted Vase with Ruler and Scribe
description
Among Maya noble families, finely painted ceramic vessels were used as fancy tableware, treasured gifts that secured the support of allies, and funerary offerings placed in tombs. Accordingly, the vessels’ imagery varies from religious themes to scenes of courtly life. Here, two attendants kneel before an enthroned nobleman who wears an enormous bird-head headdress.
date
600–900
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CC0
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en
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Q60761318
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Ceramic
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Overall: 24.5 x 10.5 cm (9 5/8 x 4 1/8 in.)
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Guatemala, Northern Peten or Mexico, Southern Campeche, Maya, late Classic
accession
1990.181
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pottery with burnished, colored slips
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Painted Vase with Ruler and Scribe, 600–900. Guatemala, Northern Peten or Mexico, Southern Campeche, Maya, late Classic. Pottery with burnished, colored slips; overall: 24.5 x 10.5 cm (9 5/8 x 4 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Gruener, 1990.181
collection
AA - Mesoamerica
didYouKnow
A string of death glyphs below the rim departs from the Primary Standard Sequence.
citations
citation
Coe, Michael D. The Maya Scribe and His World. 1973.
page_number
pp. 104-105
citation
Young-Sánchez, Margaret. "The Gruener Collection of Pre-Columbian Art." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 79, no. 7 (1992): 234-75.
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Referenced: cat. no. 89, p. 272, Reproduced: fig. 89, pg. 255
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Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Gruener
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2026-05-29 08:02:40.810000
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155455
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Art of the Americas
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AA - Mesoamerica
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pottery with burnished, colored slips
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