Cylinder vase with serpents
Artist
Unknown
CultureMayan | Guatemala
Date600-900
MediumEarthenware
DimensionsOverall: 6 1/2 x 4 3/4 in. (16.5 x 12.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of Dr. and Mrs. Leroy J. Pearlman
Object number83.645
Not on view
DescriptionIncised cylinder vase, slightly flaring rim, exterior walls decorated by intricate incising; wide burnished rim band and a narrower basal band. Below rim band is narrow band of fine cross hatching with similar burnished band just below; between this band basal band is large area of fine cross hatching on which is delineated two intertwined stylized serpents going in opposite directions.
late 19th – early 20th c.
