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

Blackware Bowl

Maker Maya culture (Mexico, Yucatan Peninsula)

Date700-850

Made/manufacturedYucatan, North and Central America

MediumCeramic with black slip

Dimensions4 3/8 x 6 3/4 x 6 3/4 in. (11.1 x 17.1 x 17.1 cm)

ClassificationsFurnishings and Equipment

Credit LineGift of Lawrence J. Cassard, M.D.

Object numberC-82-87

Collections

ANCIENT AMERICAN

DescriptionBlackware bowl with rounded bottom, curving up to rounded wall, begin inward slope halfway, to vertical wall from 2/3 height; two incised rings around exterior of rim incised design of paired stepped grec motifs below, body of bowl is divided into 24 incised lobes, vertical sections with circular tops.