Artwork
Bowl
Artist
Unknown
DepartmentLatin American Art
CultureChupicuaro
Dateca. 500-100 B.C.
MediumEarthenware
Dimensionsheight: 6 1/2 in. (16.5 cm)
diameter: 8 in. (20.3 cm)
diameter: 8 in. (20.3 cm)
Credit LineSan Antonio Museum of Art, The Robert K. Winn Collection
Object number85.1.388
GeographyPlace madeGuanajuato, Mexico
General regionNorth and Central America
DescriptionBowl with small strap handles on opposite sides of the bowl and adjacent to the rim. Exterior and interior look to be burnished. Red slip is applied along the rim. On two sides of the bowl, in red paint or slip, is a solid circle. Below this is a horizontal line that turns 90 degrees up at the ends. At the left and right ends of both lines are human hands.Label TextChupicuaro is a Preclassic site in the present state of Guanajuato located at the confluence of the Lerma and Tigre rivers. It 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.Provenancewith Robert K. Winn (d. 1979), San Antonio, TX, by 1973; by inheritance to the Steves Foundation (Mrs. Marshall Steves)/San Antonio Folk Art Museum, 1979; by donation to the San Antonio Museum Association, 1985; by transfer to the San Antonio Museum of Art, 1994On view
Collections
Unknown
Culture: Lima-Nievería/Provincial Wari
ca. A.D. 600-1000
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