Footed Dish with Animal Motifs

AD 1200-1500 (Late Period)

20.8 cm 7.9 cm

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This bowl shows an enormous bird, perhaps a condor, rendered in white on a black background. It likely had mythical significance, now lost, for the indigenous peoples of the area. Dishes on short, ring-shaped bases were common in the Nariño region straddling the border between...

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80434
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Economos Works of Art [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; John G. Bourne, 1990s, by purchase; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 2017.
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