Pre-Columbian Clay Bowl with Skull-and-Crossbones-Like Paint Remnants vintage hand-drawn postcard And what a face

And what a face

a few light stains here and there

the box is in very good shape

8 1/8" tall x 1 3/4" widest diameter

I think it’s quite a beauty of a jewelry box

Pre-Columbian Clay Bowl with Skull-and-Crossbones-Like Paint Remnants vintage hand-drawn postcard And what a faceI'm not knowledgable enough about pre Columbian pottery to identify where this bowl came from, but it was identified to me as Central American. I immediately fell in love with the remnants of painted decoration on it, which, as positioned in my first photo, suggests an excellent skull and crossbones sort of mask at center. (Or perhaps a cat with a very pointy chin!) And then a triangle pointing to the rim, with what looks a bit like a figure in