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Polychrome bowl
Polychrome bowl
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

Polychrome bowl

Maker Nazca Artist
Date300-500
Place of originPeru, South America
MediumCeramic with pigments
Dimensions4 1/8 x 4 5/8 x 4 5/8 in. (10.5 x 11.7 x 11.7 cm)
ClassificationsFurnishings and Equipment
Credit LineGift of an anonymous donor
Object numberC-74-1
Collections
Visual DescriptionBowl with a wide, slightly curved bottom, curving up into wall with slight inward slope, flaring outward slightly towards rim, red ware with dark brown field painted on wall, white bands near top and bottom, with series of vertical white rectangles ringing wall, containing stacked red dash marks
Small bowl with wide rounded bottom, wall rises with an inward slope, rounding outward to flaring rim. Burnished polychrome depiction (sideways) of feline head with long arrow-tongue, rectangular body extending along bottom of wall feet and legs spread out behind, panels of arrows fill wall over body.
Polychrome bowl with agricultural deity
Nazca Artist
200-300
Bowl with rounded bottom curving up into wall, rounding inward at 1/3 height to straight wall with inward slope to rim; upper wall sectioned into panels with black bands around rim and shoulder, panels have biangular motifs surrounded by dots with horizontal hatch marks on side, four large bands of red section bottom into quadrants
Polychrome Bowl
Costa Rican Artist
1200-1550
Black and red on white alligator motifs pushed out Small globular jar with round base, curving outwards into wall, curving inwards on top half - raised rim with slight outward slope - 4 slight nubs, evenly spaced around upper half of wall, low and rounded. Brown ware with buff slip - black line ringing interior of rim, red line on edge of rim, black line on exterior of rim - red circle around each nub, with black circle inside, quartered by black lines with a dot in each quarter.
Small Jar
Diquis Artist
1000-1500
La Selva phase; curridebot ware; burnished buff, orange inside neck; frog motif in incised and low relief. Small pot with spherical bottom, curving into wall - raised ridge at 1/2 height, curving inwards for top half, to raised neck with outward sloping rim. Brown ware with red slip - ring of inscribed dash marks below neck - 4 raised points, at quarters, along ridge, with inscribed chevron over each, over 2 of these, opposite, are raised triangular nubs with incised dash marks.
Legless pot
Costa Rican Artist
500-1200
Small globular jar with broad rounded bottom curving up into wall, rounding inward at 1/2 height with low slope to narrow mouth with short raised flaring rim. 3 pairs of nubbins located on shoulder.
Small globular jar
Chorotegan Artist
1200-1550
Large bowl with relatively flat bottom, curving at edge up into wall with slight outward lean and slight flare at rim. Supported by tripod legs shaped to resemble animal heads, attachment area to bottom is neck, swelling to cranial area, tapering to pointy snout, indented mouth groove. Red lines on interior of rim, black line on exterior rim and bottom of wall, red triangle over each leg bordered by wide vertical bands, panels of abstract design (possibly a face) red band around edge of bott…
Tripod Bowl
Costa Rican Artist
1000-1550
Small globular jar with broad rounded bottom, rounding up into wall, curving inward a low slope on upper half to narrow mouth with raised flared ring. Two animal figures, on opposite sides with raised chest area, small nubbins for hands, and spherical attached hands slightly pinched for nose.
Globular jar with double effigies
Costa Rican Artist
1350-1550
Large bowl with flat bottom, curving up into wall with outward slope, gradually flaring outward to rim.
Large Polychrome Bowl
Costa Rican Artist
1350-1550
Spherical vessel, bottom slightly widened, top slightly tapered with 2 tubular spouts rising around center of top, connected by wide flat band to make a handle. Painted in burnished polychrome of feline figure and head on one side with connecting body over top and trophy head on other side, at base of tail, wall segmented by thin white lines and black vertical bands.
Bridge-Spout Bottle of Cat God
Nazca Artist
300–500 CE
Large bowl with curved bottom, curved walls flaring out on lower half, inward on upper half. Small neck with slight outward flaring rim, interior is smoothly rounded.
Large bowl
Chupícuaro Artist
300-200 BCE
Small pot with rounded bottom supported by footing ring with flaring base, bottom bordered by low raised ridge, wall curving outwards to 1/2 height, rounding upwards to tall broad neck with slight outward slope at rim. Black bands and panel rings on neck with geometric forms possibly abstracted jaguar motif, wall sectioned b y 4 vertical black bands, red bands around bottom, footing rings with red triangles, bordered with black.
Ring base urn with polychrome jaguar frieze
Nicarao Artist
1200-1550
Three-color negative painted alligator stylizations. Small globular jar with narrow rounded base, steeply curving outward wall, sharp angle break at 2/3 height inward curve to rim short with slightly raised ring around it outward flaring rim. Interior and lip of rim red, bottom 2/3 red, black band just below angle break, 2 panels in black resist painting around top 1/3 - border of black lines with inverted "V" shape at center, surrounded by lines with small "T's" coming off.
Small Jar
Costa Rican Artist
1000-1500

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