Mayan Pre-Columbian Blackware Effigy Vessel with Bird quebec folk art not so small hand-carved bench

not so small hand-carved bench seems very much one of a kind to me

Each measures 7 1/4" x 4 7/8" and they are in great

There is one small hairline crack along the lip

touching thing

when optical illusions because a big thing in France (check out the phénakisticopes published by Joseph Plateau)  and reversal portraits were circulated

Mayan Pre-Columbian Blackware Effigy Vessel with Bird quebec folk art not so small hand-carved benchI found a note inside of this vessel which identifies is Mayan pre Columbian from Belize and I know it came from the estate of a pre Columbian pottery collector. Of course I love it for the head of the bird pointing out from the lip, and the way the lip is shaped to evince the bird's whole body. From what I understand, the blackened surface would have been achieved through the application of a mineral rich slip, with the monochrome finish designating