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Tripod vessel with effigy lid

A.D. 350–550
Object PlaceMexico or Guatemala
Medium/TechniqueEarthenware: brown slip paint
Dimensions12.7 x 20.5 cm (5 x 8 1/16 in.)
Credit LineGift of Alphonse Jax
Accession number1983.399b
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsCeramics
Collections
ProvenanceWith Alphonse Jax, New York, by 1983; to MFA, October 1983, gift of Alphonse Jax.
Jar
A.D. 500–1550
Bowl
300 B.C.–A.D. 300
Portrait bottle
A.D. 400–800
Cylinder vase
A.D. 700–800
Flask
A.D. 800–1550
Cylinder vase
A.D. 650–800
Human face effigy vessel
200 B.C.–A.D. 300
Cylinder vase
200 B.C.–A.D. 300