Bowl with Human Figure Inside
Artist:
Unknown
Place made:Guatemala
General region:North and Central America
Culture: Maya
Period: Pre-Columbian
Date: ca. A.D. 750-900
Medium: Earthenware with paint
Dimensions:
h. 3 3/8 in. (8.5 cm); diam. 8 3/16 in. (20.8 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Lee Moore
Object number: 72.73
Provenance: with Lee Moore, S. Miami, FL, by 1972; by gift to Witte Museum, San Antonio, TX, 1972; by transfer to the San Antonio Museum of Art, 1994
Label Text
On this bowl, the polychrome painted motifs cover nearly all of its interior and exterior surfaces. All three human figures illustrated on the vessel wear headdresses with waterlily symbolism. Waterlilies may also be represnted by the grid with black dots, which may signify netting. Waterlillies are signifiers of water which would suggest that the story told on this vessel is linked to the watery underworld. (Bernadette Cap, 2020).
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