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Earthenware bowl with brownish clay body under black slip, burnished, with white pigment rubbed into incised designs located around shoulder and under rim. Bowl has wide mouth with flaring rim, and three hollow, conical rattle feet.

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Tripod Bowl

Guanacaste-Nicoya Zone, Pre-Columbian

Late Period VI (1200-1550), Castillo/Engraved (1200-1550)

Titles Tripod Bowl (Descriptive)
Artist Guanacaste-Nicoya Zone, Costa Rica
Medium earthenware and slip
Dimensions 3 3/4 x 5 1/8 in. Diam. (9.5 x 13 cm)
Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Edwin A. Bowman Jr., AFI.20.2011
Work Type bowl
Classification Containers

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