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Tall bowl
Nasca
Early Intermediate Period (Middle Nasca Period)
A.D. 100–300
Object Place: Perú, South Coast
Medium/Technique
Earthenware: brown, red, light orange, dark orange, gray, and white slip paint
Dimensions
9.6 x 16.3 cm (3 3/4 x 6 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Anonymous gift
Accession Number2001.153
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsCeramics – Pottery – Earthenware
DescriptionTall bowl with outflaring sides and rounded base. The exterior is decorated with a wide band of ten interlocked, step-fret designs painted alternately in brown, red and dark orange. One step-fret is painted gray, which may originally have been a green hue that has faded. A thin, white outline defines the band and each of the step-frets. The upper half of the interior of the bowl is painted with red slip.
Marks
On bottom: "C" in black.
ProvenanceBetween the early 1940s and late 1950s, probably acquired in Peru by Bernhard Kummel (b. 1919 - d. 1980), Cambridge, MA [see note]; late 1950s, sold by Bernhard Kummel to an anonymous collection; 2001, anonymous gift to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 21, 2001)
NOTE: The Boston Globe reported ("South America's Rainy Jungle Less Dangerous than Harvard Square," November 17, 1957) on the time Dr. Kummel, a Harvard professor of geology, spent in Peru. He and his wife are pictured holding Peruvian vessels from their collection.
NOTE: The Boston Globe reported ("South America's Rainy Jungle Less Dangerous than Harvard Square," November 17, 1957) on the time Dr. Kummel, a Harvard professor of geology, spent in Peru. He and his wife are pictured holding Peruvian vessels from their collection.