Cleveland Museum of Art
Shell with Seated Noble
- Date
- 600–900
- Medium
- conch shell
- Culture
- Mexico or Central America, Maya
- Department
- Art of the Americas
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
This plaque, perhaps meant to be held in the hand for close viewing, is delicately incised with a ruler who leans toward a serpent-headed conch shell at the lower left. The lord, who smokes a cigar, is simply dressed in a loincloth; a band of body paint or tattoos appears on his chest. A Maya nobleman smokes a cigar as he reaches toward a shell with a serpent.
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