A Maya polychrome vessel, Late Classic, ca. A.D. 550-950

the tapering form painted with two lords seated between columns and exchanging bundles of feathers and ritual flowers, one figure wearing a large jaguar head with spotted pelt of skin as ear ornament, the other figure with long dark coiffure wrapped in quetzal plumes, a column of secondary glyphs including ahau , "lord", and primary sequence boldly painted above.

James Economos, 1969

The exchange of flowers was a form of tribute payment as noted in a 16th C. account; for a vessel showing this type of bouquet, see Reents-Budet (1994: 320, cat. no. 12 and fig. 2.20); for the vessel type (ibid: fig. 1.18).