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Period IV (?); red-orange ware in black painted lines, surface like curridabot ware. Small bowl with wide rounded bottom, gradual outward curve to 1/2 height, changing to inward slope to rim - small triangular nubbins attached just below rim on opposite sides with holes poked through for hanging, small pellet nubs placed between to quarter. Brown ware with red slip, black vertical lines surround the four nubbins, with diagonal slashes running below.
Small Bowl
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

Small Bowl

Artist Costa Rican Artist
Dateundated
Place of originAtlantic Watershed, Costa Rica, North and Central America
MediumCeramic with pigments
Dimensions1 3/4 x 2 5/8 x 2 5/8 in. (4.4 x 6.7 x 6.7 cm)
mouth diameter: 1 5/8 in. (4.1 cm)
ClassificationsFurnishings and Equipment
Object numberC-86-38
Collections
Visual DescriptionPeriod IV (?); red-orange ware in black painted lines, surface like curridabot ware.
Small bowl with wide rounded bottom, gradual outward curve to 1/2 height, changing to inward slope to rim - small triangular nubbins attached just below rim on opposite sides with holes poked through for hanging, small pellet nubs placed between to quarter.
Brown ware with red slip, black vertical lines surround the four nubbins, with diagonal slashes running below.
Curridabot ware. Small jar with wide rounded base, rounding up into wall sloping inward after 1/2 height - rim raises up and flares out - two small nubbins below rim on opposite sides with holes poked through at wall - possibly to hang from. Brown ware with red slip.
Small Jar
Costa Rican Artist
c. 500-1000
Globular jar with hemispherical bottom curving up into wall at 2/3 height is a wide indented groove with wall continuing at an inward slope to long neck. 2 raised rings with notches at base of neck and center of upper wall, wide raised ridge below rim. Grey ware with black slip, 2 small nubbins opposite each other on wall just above wide indented groove groups of incised lines, in opposing diagonals on rim.
Globular Jar
Costa Rican Artist
1200-1550
Globular jar
Globular jar
Costa Rican Artist
1200-1550
Small globular jar with wide rounded bottom - wall curves outward to 1/2 height, slopes inward to rim - raised rim with outward flare - two small conical nubbins placed opposite on wall just above 1/2 height. Brown ware with red slip - traces of black pigment on bottom - vertical lines radiating from center of bottom to ring at half height.
Small Jar
Costa Rican Artist
undated
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Legless Pot
Costa Rican Artist
500-1000
La Selva phase; Curridabot ware Small pot with raised base ring, flattened inside, wall rising with steep outward curve to 3/4 height, raised ridge around wall, inward sloping to flat, outward flare of rim. Brown ware with red slip - 3 evenly spaced oblong pellets of clay placed above ridge, flattened in middle with 2 vertical inscribed lines - inscribed lines in spaces in between making chevron pattern.
Small Pot
Costa Rican Artist
500-1200
Miniature pot with rounded bottom curving outward into lower wall to 1/2 height - raised ridge around wall, upper wall sloping sharply inwards - short raised neck with outward flaring rim - two small nubbins placed opposite each other just above ridge. Brown ware with red slip.
Miniature Pot
Costa Rican Artist
500-1200
Period IV; scarified ware; appliqued female figure on side, broken off on other. Small jar with spherical bottom, outward curve to 1/2 height, inward curve to rim, slightly raised with outward slope, small nub, broken off on one side, opposite figure - modeled figure, possibly human, attached to rim and upper wall, head with outstretched arms at rim, elbows bent with hands placed on upper wall, body and legs moving down upper wall, slit for vagina apparent, incised band of vertical lines and di…
Small Jar with Attached Figure
Diquis Artist
300 BC-500 AD
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
Small Jar
Small Jar
Costa Rican Artist
undated
Small jar with rounded bottom curving up into wall, rounding inward at 1/2 height, inward curve to outward flaring rim - two small nubbins, situated opposite each other just below rim, each with 3 small indented holes in a line with another indented hole on either side of nubbin. Buffware with red slip - three pairs, evenly spaced, of painted vertical bands radiating from center of bottom up to rim.
Small Jar
Costa Rican Artist
undated
Globular jar with slightly rounded bottom, curving up into gradually rounded wall, angle break at 2/3 height with wall sloping inwards to raised rim with outward slope. grey ware with black slip, 4 nubbins attached to wall just above angle break in quadrants, opposites paired with one set a round nub with raised lateral crest ridge and slit at 1/2 height, other set is cylindrical numb ridges angled downward off sides.
Globular Jar
Costa Rican Artist
1200-1550

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