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Shell paint palette

Maya

Late Classic Period, 550–850 AD

Object Place: Guatemala, Mexico, or Belize

Palette for holding water-based paints carved from a large conch shell. The palette is carved asf the formal pose of Maya court painters portrayed on the pictorial ceramics, with fingers curled towards the palm and the thumb or forefinger pointing forwards.

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Base of a green glazed composition vessel decorated on one side with a Bes-head and on the other with representations of animals.

New Kingdom, Egypt (i.e. 6thC-11thC BCE)

(via British Museum)

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