Bowl with eagle head and interlocking stepped fret design
Bowl with eagle head and interlocking stepped fret design
Bowl with eagle head and interlocking stepped fret design
Bowl with eagle head and interlocking stepped fret design

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Art of the Ancient Americas

Bowl with eagle head and interlocking stepped fret design,

ca. 1500

Eastern Nahua
Late Postclassic Period
2016-1417

Information

Title
Bowl with eagle head and interlocking stepped fret design
Dates

ca. 1500

Medium
Ceramic with orange and black slip
Dimensions
h. 3.9, diam. 12.3 cm (1 9/16 × 4 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Gillett G. Griffin
Object Number
2016-1417
Place Made

North America, Mexico, Oaxaca

Culture
Nahua
Period
Postclassic, Late Postclassic
Type
bowls (vessels), ceramics
Materials
slip, ceramic
Subject
eagles, iconography, frets (patterns)

Acquired by Gillett G. Griffin (1928-2016), Princeton, NJ, by 2000 [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 2000.

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