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Tripod bowl with mammiform, rattle supports
Costa Rican
Period V
A.D. 500–1000
Object Place: Costa Rica, Atlantic Watershed zone
Medium/Technique
Earthenware: red slip paint
Dimensions
9.5 x 15.4 cm (3 3/4 x 6 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Professor Emeritus F. H. Norton and the Department of Metallurgy and Materials Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Accession Number1971.497
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CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsCeramics – Pottery – Earthenware
DescriptionBowl with flaring rim and three large, mammiform supports. Post-fire incised motifs on the bowl's exterior conposed of two parallel lines topped by triangles embellished with three parallel lines inside each form.
ProvenanceCollection of F.H. Norton, Massachusetts, by 1971; to MFA, November 1971, gift of F. H. Norton and the Dept. of Metallurgy and Materials Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.