Gourd-Shaped Bowl

450-650 CE (Middle Classic)

13.5 cm 11.4 cm

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On the swelling organic form of a gourd, the artist incised curved forms that give the viewer an impression of a monstrous animal. While very abstracted, the design is the head of a crocodilian creature. The stylized and simplified decoration recalls not only hieroglyphs but...

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J. Guy Puerto [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; John G. Bourne, 1961, by purchase; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 2017.
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