Gourd dish

Museum number:
3-1931
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.524
Description:
Gourd dish; inside lacquered red, outside lacquered black bottom thickened red rim; brush painted inside gold rim blue arrow design band below. White dotted band, blue and white bird in center on yellow fruitm green leaves. Outside brush painted with blue and white design band, gold and white dotted bands. Red dish flower with green leaves on bottom. 6.5 cm X 4 cm deep. Hole punched for hanging. Name Rita on outside. Made from one half of blossom end gourd. (see file card 3-26848)
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Olinalá, Guerrero, Mexico
Verbatim coll. place:
(Fide G.M. Foster, 1946)
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection date:
unknown
Materials:
Paint (coating)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Dishes (vessels for food)
Function:
4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings
Accession date:
1917
Context of use:
Household decoration / measure
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Comment:
H-11-6
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Gourd dish, accession number 3-1931, described as Gourd dish; inside lacquered red, outside lacquered black bottom thickened red rim; brush painted inside gold rim blue arrow design band below. White dotted band, blue and white bird in center on yellow fruitm green leaves. Outside brush painted with blue and white design band, gold and white dotted bands. Red dish flower with green leaves on bottom. 6.5 cm X 4 cm deep. Hole punched for hanging. Name Rita on outside. Made from one half of blossom end gourd. (see file card 3-26848)Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Gourd dish, accession number 3-1931, described as Gourd dish; inside lacquered red, outside lacquered black bottom thickened red rim; brush painted inside gold rim blue arrow design band below. White dotted band, blue and white bird in center on yellow fruitm green leaves. Outside brush painted with blue and white design band, gold and white dotted bands. Red dish flower with green leaves on bottom. 6.5 cm X 4 cm deep. Hole punched for hanging. Name Rita on outside. Made from one half of blossom end gourd. (see file card 3-26848)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Gourd dish, accession number 3-1931, described as Gourd dish; inside lacquered red, outside lacquered black bottom thickened red rim; brush painted inside gold rim blue arrow design band below. White dotted band, blue and white bird in center on yellow fruitm green leaves. Outside brush painted with blue and white design band, gold and white dotted bands. Red dish flower with green leaves on bottom. 6.5 cm X 4 cm deep. Hole punched for hanging. Name Rita on outside. Made from one half of blossom end gourd. (see file card 3-26848)

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