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Vase or Chamber Pot

1780-1800
Artist/maker unknown, Mexican
The scene on the front of this vessel--representing a turbaned man with a staff and a figure floating face down in a river--is yet to be deciphered. The image perhaps derives from a popular tale or local legend.

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