Shallow bowl with fire-clouding and deeply carved symbols on the exterior and highly burnished interior
Shallow bowl with fire-clouding and deeply carved symbols on the exterior and highly burnished interior
Shallow bowl with fire-clouding and deeply carved symbols on the exterior and highly burnished interior
Shallow bowl with fire-clouding and deeply carved symbols on the exterior and highly burnished interior

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Art of the Ancient Americas

Shallow bowl with fire-clouding and deeply carved symbols on the exterior and highly burnished interior,

1200–900 BCE

Olmec style
Early Formative Period
2016-1133

Information

Title
Shallow bowl with fire-clouding and deeply carved symbols on the exterior and highly burnished interior
Dates

1200–900 BCE

Medium
Ceramic, brownware, incised decoration on outside, burnished inside
Dimensions
h. 4.5, diam. 14.7 cm (1 3/4 × 5 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Gillett G. Griffin
Object Number
2016-1133
Place Made

North America, Mexico, Puebla, Las Bocas

Culture
Olmec
Period
Early Preclassic
Type
ceramics, bowls (vessels)
Materials
ceramic
Techniques
burnishing (polishing)
Subject
hieroglyphics

Everett Rassiga (NY-based art dealer); purchased on September 11, 1968, by Gillett G. Griffin (1928-2016), Princeton, NJ [1]; bequest to the Princeton University Art Museum, 2016. [1] According to dated invoice.

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