Vessel Lid or Dish

African

20th century

  • Titles Vessel Lid or Dish (Descriptive)
  • Medium fired clay and slip
  • Dimensions 3 1/8 x 7 3/4 in. Diam. (7.9 x 19.7 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Dick Jemison Collection of African Pottery, AFI.398.2012
  • Work Type vessel lid or dish
  • Classification Containers

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Round, brownish, footed vessel has cut-in lid with knob in form of modeled human head. Entire vessel and lid covered with raised knobs and whitish pigment.
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