Bowl

Bowl

Bowl

Artist: Mexico
Date: 300-700 CE
Medium: Fired clay
Classification: Containers
Credit Line: Gift of Henry Schnakenberg
Object number: 1954.22.169
DescriptionFlat-bottomed and straight-sided bowl of light brown clay, red and orange slips on exterior, interior smoke blackened. Exterior highly burnished. Exterior of sides is decorated with red-slipped borders enclosing a band of orange with Three identical prone figures in red. Their outlines and interior detail defined by crude white-filled incision. The human-headed figures have fish-like bodies, wear necklaces and have speechscrolls with scroll-like tabs.
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