Maya Ceramic Copador Bowl

Stylized birds stand in a row around the bowl, each with a long neck and a confident stance.

This Copador bowl is Maya, from Honduras, and dates to 300 – 900 CE. It is painted pottery. Copador ware, named for the Copán area, is generally recognized by its bright red and orange slips and its bands of pseudo-glyphs and birds. The rounded bowl carries a red rim band above a cream frieze dotted with red, where black-outlined bird or glyph forms alternate with vertical bars. Below runs a red band of wavy, eye-like scrolls. It is 3.5 inches high and 7.5 in diameter.

Somebody painted the birds, and somebody else surely ate their lunch from it.