Bowl with Flower Motif

300 BC-AD 700

11.1 cm 6.7 cm

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Possibly made during the colonial period, this simple bowl shows a many-petalled flower and accompanying leaves. This may have been merely decorative, or may refer to a sacred, possibly hallucenogenic, plant of the coastal region in which it was made.

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New World Antiquities, San Francisco [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Private collection, 1988, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 2009, by gift.
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