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Source Description
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 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
80434
label
Footed Dish with Animal Motifs
core
obj
dtoType
object
citationUrl
pageCount
2
Source metadata
id
80434
contentType
object
stage
normalized
title
Footed Dish with Animal Motifs
description
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 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 1200-1500 (Late Period)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Ceramics
bowls (vessels)
imageCount
2
pageCount
2
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
7.9
height
20.8
dimensionsRaw
H: 3 1/8 x Diam: 8 3/16 in. (7.94 x 20.83 cm)
Source extras
cul
Nariño-Carchí
med
earthenware, negative slip paint
creator_ids
31463
collection_ids
AME
exhibition_ids
none
Page inventory
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1
type
photo
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7e3493bd694f4481
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no
hasDescription
no
seq
2
type
photo
mediaId
f625efcc80936bb3
hasOcr
no
hasDescription
no