Bowl
Artist:
Unknown
Place made:Guanajuato, Mexico
General region:North and Central America
Culture: Chupicuaro
Period: Pre-Columbian
Date: ca. 500-100 B.C.
Medium: Earthenware
Dimensions:
height: 6 1/2 in. (16.5 cm)
diameter: 8 in. (20.3 cm)
Credit Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, The Robert K. Winn Collection
Object number: 85.1.388
Provenance: with 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, 1994
Label Text
Chupicuaro 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.
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