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© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University. Photo by Michael McKelvey.
Bowl with Abstract Motif
© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University. Photo by Michael McKelvey.
© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University. Photo by Michael McKelvey.
© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University. Photo by Michael McKelvey.
ClassificationsArt of the Americas

Bowl with Abstract Motif

AAT Object Form/FunctionBowls (vessels)
Place CreatedCosta Rica, North America
CultureChiriqui, Greater Nicoya
PeriodPeriod V - Period VI
Date800-1350 CE
MediumCeramic
Credit LineGift of Rose Cunningham
Dimensions3 1/8 x 7 15/16 in. (7.9 x 20.2 cm)
Object number1965.066.001
Exhibition HistoryEmory University Museum of Art and Archaeology, 1982
Published ReferencesRebecca Stone-Miller, Seeing With New Eyes: Highlights of the Michael C. Carlos Museum Collection of Art of the Ancient Americas (Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum, 2002), 98-99, figure 195.
Rebecca Stone, The Jaguar Within: Shamanic Trance in Ancient Central and South American Art (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011), 148, figure 6.25.
ProvenanceEx coll. Rose Cunningham (1927-2020), Atlanta, Georgia.
Status
Not on view
Collections
  • Art of the Americas