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Cylindrical Vessel Fans 2   16.6 x 14.7 cms.

Classic MAYA, dated between 593 and 672 a. Chr Ceramic Zacatel in cream colour, with mineral pigments in red, brown, pink, orange, yellow, green and black. Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Crystal River Florida, USA

Origin unknown, region of the lowlands on the banks of the Usumacinta River, between Peten Guatemala and Chiapas Mexico   (Dos Pilas-altar de Sacrificios-Yaxchilan)

The governor, seated on a stone throne, talks with two persons, who have bunches of flowers in the left hand. The main personage uses cotton trousers and is decorated with jade pearls and has a plume finishing off with lilies and quetzal feathers. On his right knee we can find a small vessel and under his foot we see a plate. On one side there is a great plate with food, perhaps tamales with salsa.    

The governor talks to a person, who is seated as well and who is wearing cotton trousers and whose head is decorated with a hairdo with two quetzal feathers and a lily. On the chest he has a necklace with a spondylus shell. The standing person wears leather trousers, decorated with glyphic inscriptions. He wears a necklace and bracelets of jade. In frent we can see a pot, decorated with the date 13 ahau.

The inscriptions on the superior rim show the glyphs 3 Ben 6 Kankin, which corresponds to the date 9.12.11.9.13, an event, which happened in the year 683 on the throne of Ah Kawil in the place of Dos Pilas. The glyphs behind the head of the main person, are the sign of the artist and their placing imply a royal status of the painter.-