Flask with Glyphs and Seated Figures

CultureMaya
Titles
  • Flask with Glyphs and Seated Figures
Date600–900 AD
Possible placeEl Salvador
Possible placeHonduras
Possible placeGuatemala
MediumEarthenware with slip
Dimensions5 × 4 3/4 × 2 1/8 in. (12.7 × 12.1 × 5.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of Frank Carroll
Object number2014.77
Current Location
The Caroline Wiess Law Building
205M Wiess Gallery
On view

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Object Type
Provenance[Unknown dealer, United States, before 1980]; sold through Don Bennett's Ethnographic Show in the Sweeny Center, Santa Fe, August 1980; purchased by Robert Huber and Marianne Huber, Dixon, Illinois, 1980–1994; sold through [Huber Primitive Art, Dixon, Illinois]; purchased by Frank Carroll, Houston, May 1, 1994–2014; given to MFAH, 2014.
Exhibition HistoryThe Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, on loan, February 5, 2004–May 19, 2014, when accessioned as gift.

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Vase with Glyphs
100–600 AD
Earthenware with slip
81.199.A,.B
Seated Couple Effigy Figures
Pre-Columbian
Earthenware with slip
61.14.1,.2
Seated Couple Effigy Figures
300 BC–300 AD
Earthenware with slip
65.100.1,.2
Pedestal Vase with Two Seated Figures
600–900 AD
Earthenware with slip and polychrome pigment
67.11
Bowl Fragment with Glyphs
600–900
Shell
2015.479
front of object
100 BC–700 AD
Earthenware with slip
2010.983.1,.2
Seated Figure
300 BC–300 AD
Earthenware with slip
2015.295
Seated Figure
300 BC–300 AD
Earthenware with slip
2015.294
Seated Male Figure Holding a Mace
100 BC–300 AD
Earthenware with slip
61.17
Seated Female Figure
100 BC–300 AD
Earthenware with slip
61.16