Bowl with faces on two sides

AD 1-700 (Early Intermediate)

16.5 cm 10.5 cm

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This bowl is decorated on two sides with very simplified faces, and the whole is carefully burnished to a high shine. Such bowls would have been used for food preparation or personal possessions. They might have been closed with ceramic or wood stoppers, tied in place with twine.

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79415
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Jack Lenor Larsen, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Private collection, 1989 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 2009, by gift.
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