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Source Description
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.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
79415
label
Bowl with faces on two sides
core
obj
dtoType
object
citationUrl
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
79415
sourceUrl
contentType
object
stage
normalized
title
Bowl with faces on two sides
description
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.
provenance
Jack Lenor Larsen, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Private collection, 1989 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 2009, by gift.
date
AD 1-700 (Early Intermediate)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Ceramics
bowls (vessels)
imageCount
1
pageCount
1
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
10.5
height
16.5
dimensionsRaw
H: 4 1/8 x W: 6 1/2 in. (10.5 x 16.5 cm)
Source extras
cul
Nazca
style
Proto-Nazca
med
earthenware
creator_ids
31447
collection_ids
AME
exhibition_ids
none
Single page context
seq
1
pageIndex
0
type
photo
mediaId
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