Bowl with Incised Motifs

1200-600 BCE (Early-Middle Formative)

15.2 cm 5.1 cm 6.9 cm

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The brown color and elongated, curvilinear form of this bowl recalls that of a gourd, the most common food-service vessel in Mesoamerica. To this day, gourds remain an important household item as well as the preferred container for ceremonial offerings, from those for curing t...

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Stendahl Galleries, Los Angeles [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [1] ; John G. Bourne, 1970s, by purchase; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 2017.[1] Said to have been found ""one inside the other"" with 2009.20.270
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