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Art of the Ancient Americas
Bowl with elaborate exterior stepped-fret design,
ca. 1500
Eastern Nahua
Late Postclassic Period
2006-65
Information
Title
Bowl with elaborate exterior stepped-fret design
Dates
ca. 1500
Medium
Ceramic with orange and black slip
Dimensions
h. 6, diam. 13 cm (2 3/8 × 5 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Gillett G. Griffin
Object Number
2006-65
Place Made
North America, Mexico, Oaxaca, Central Mexico
Culture
Period
Type
Subject
Acquired by Gillett G. Griffin (1928-2016), Princeton, NJ; gift to the Princeton University Art Museum, 2006.
- John M. D. Pohl, Sorcerers of the Fifth Heaven: Nahua Art and Ritual of Ancient Southern Mexico (Princeton: Princeton University Program in Latin American Studies no. 9, 2007)., fig. 25d, p. 44 (illus.)
- "Acquisitions of the Princeton University Art Museum 2006," Record of the Princeton University Art Museum 66 (2007): p. 41-74., p. 44