Bowl with deeply carved cloud designs on the lower half of the exterior
Bowl with deeply carved cloud designs on the lower half of the exterior
Bowl with deeply carved cloud designs on the lower half of the exterior
Bowl with deeply carved cloud designs on the lower half of the exterior

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Art of the Ancient Americas

Bowl with deeply carved cloud designs on the lower half of the exterior,

1200–900 BCE

Olmec style
Early Formative Period
2016-1394

Information

Title
Bowl with deeply carved cloud designs on the lower half of the exterior
Dates

1200–900 BCE

Medium
Orangeware with burnished cream slip and traces of red pigment on the interior
Dimensions
h. 6.6, diam. 12.4 cm (2 5/8 × 4 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Gillett G. Griffin
Object Number
2016-1394
Place Made

North America, Mexico, Puebla, Las Bocas

Culture
Olmec
Period
Early Preclassic
Type
bowls (vessels), ceramics
Materials
slip, ceramic, pigment
Techniques
burnishing (polishing)
Subject
cloud bands

Acquired by Gillett G. Griffin (1928-2016), Princeton, NJ, by 1989 [1]; bequest to the Princeton University Art Museum, 2016.

[1] This item was loaned by Gillett G. Griffin to the Princeton University Art Museum in 1989.

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