Maya Indian Pottery was both painted and carved, and includes some of the finest decorated pieces of pre Columbian America. Maya Polychrome pottery usually was coated with an orange of buff slip, and then was painted over with black-outlined designs of darker orange, red, white or brown.
Serpents, monkeys, birds, jaguar, humans and grotesque beings were favorite decorative devices. Sometimes the Maya pottery bore bands of glyphs, or pseudo-glyphs, arranged to form borders or decorative panels.
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