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

Small Footed Pot

Maker Costa Rica, Central Highlands

Date300-500

Made/manufacturedNorth and Central America

MediumCeramic with orange slip

Dimensions2 1/4 x 4 1/4 in. (5.7 x 10.8 cm)

ClassificationsFurnishings and Equipment

Credit LineGift of Seymour Rosenberg

Object numberC-86-64

Collections

ANCIENT AMERICAN

DescriptionGuinea engraved, orange brown ware; small pot with spherical bottom supported on a raised footed ring flaring out at bottom with rounded edge, wall curves outward to 1/2 height large raised ridge, wall indents inward, runs up with slight inward slope, flat outward facing ring; brown ware with red slip, incised rings on rim with clusters of four vertical lines at edge, small incised notched around rim and ridge, two panels on upper walls, bordered with incised lines with angular "S" pattern, footing has four pierced holes with incised "S" patterns in between with vertical lines around circle