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

Blackware Bowl

Artist Maya Artist
Date700-850
Place of originYucatan Peninsula, Mexico, 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
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