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Source Description
This bowl shows a staff-bearing feline, likely a puma, repeated many times around the surface of the bowl. At the center, an eight-pointed star, broken into four directions, may represent a stylized image of the known world and its cardinal directions. Pumas, as some of the most powerful predators of the Americas, were highly important in the mythology of the Andes, and this likely has a meaning not well-understood today. Dishes on short, ring-shaped bases were common in the Nariño region straddling the border between Ecuador and Colombia. They were carefully shaped, burnished (carefully polished with a stone), and painted with different colors of slip, a thinned out clay. Many of the Nariño vessels show highly abstracted patterns, like this one.
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Document identity
localId
80435
label
Footed Dish with Animal Motifs
core
obj
dtoType
object
citationUrl
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2
Source metadata
id
80435
contentType
object
stage
normalized
title
Footed Dish with Animal Motifs
description
This bowl shows a staff-bearing feline, likely a puma, repeated many times around the surface of the bowl. At the center, an eight-pointed star, broken into four directions, may represent a stylized image of the known world and its cardinal directions. Pumas, as some of the most powerful predators of the Americas, were highly important in the mythology of the Andes, and this likely has a meaning not well-understood today. Dishes on short, ring-shaped bases were common in the Nariño region straddling the border between Ecuador and Colombia. They were carefully shaped, burnished (carefully polished with a stone), and painted with different colors of slip, a thinned out clay. Many of the Nariño vessels show highly abstracted patterns, like this one.
provenance
Economos Works of Art [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; John G. Bourne, 1990s, by purchase; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 2017.
date
AD 900-1500 (Late Period)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Ceramics
bowls (vessels)
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2
pageCount
2
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
9.2
height
18.5
dimensionsRaw
H: 3 5/8 x Diam: 7 5/16 in. (9.21 x 18.54 cm)
Source extras
cul
Nariño (Tuza)
med
earthenware, slip paint
creator_ids
31463
collection_ids
AME
exhibition_ids
2988
Page inventory
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1
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photo
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ca9292eec3df3d36
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no
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no
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2
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photo
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06419d673def01f1
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no
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no