Bowl

Museum number:
4-4731
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Accession number:
Acc.81
Description:
Incurving bowl painted in two colors. Height 7.6 cm.; diameter of mouth 10.3 cm.; maximum body diameter 13.1 cm. The exterior walls are a grey color, and a narrow red ring encircles the unslipped bottom. The interior is also unslipped. Two large cracks which appeared in the wall of the vessel before it was fired are crudely filled with clay which was left unpainted. This is analagous to the repainting and buckling of 4-4730.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Grave 10, Ocucaje Site F, Ica Valley
Verbatim coll. place:
Ocucaje, Site F: Grave 10
Culture or time period:
Early Intermediate Period 3C, ancient Peru and Nazca culture (100 BC–800 AD)
Collector:
Max Uhle
Materials:
Ceramic (material)
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Bowls (vessels)
Accession date:
July 24, 1903
Department:
Ancient Peru
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bowl, accession number 4-4731, described as Incurving bowl painted in two colors. Height 7.6 cm.; diameter of mouth 10.3 cm.; maximum body diameter 13.1 cm. The exterior walls are a grey color, and a narrow red ring encircles the unslipped bottom. The interior is also unslipped. Two large cracks which appeared in the wall of the vessel before it was fired are crudely filled with clay which was left unpainted. This is analagous to the repainting and buckling of 4-4730.

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