Flaring bowl decorated with six geometric scroll designs. Due to lack of space one scroll is turned vertically. Height 8.8 cm.; diameter 16.6 cm. Painted in four colors. The scrolls alternate white and purple on a black background. The rim band is also purple. The bottom and interior are red. Some of the wide deep burnishing strokes in the interior show a distinct upswing. Illustrated by Kroeber, and Strong, 1924, Plate 26h.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Grave 6, Ocucaje Site F, Ica Valley
Verbatim coll. place:
Ocucaje, Site F: Grave 6
Culture or time period:
Early Intermediate Period 3C, ancient Peru and Nazca culture (100 BC–800 AD)