Bowl
Artist:
Unknown
Culture: Chupicuaro
Period: Pre-Columbian
Date: ca. 500-100 B.C.
Medium: Earthenware
Dimensions:
height: 3 1/2 in. (8.9 cm)
width: 4 1/2 in. (11.4 cm)
Credit Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, gift of Nancy B. Negley
Object number: 71.223.1
Label Text
Chupicuaro is a pre-classic site in the present state of Guanajuato. It is located at the confluence of the Lerma and Tigre rivers and has yielded great numbers of figural ceramics, as well as highly burnished pottery bowls and other vessels. Its location near the northern frontier of Mesoamerica is apparent by the strong stylistic associations between Chupicuaro pottery designs and those of the U. S. Southwest.
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