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Small jar
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Object Place: Ecuador (?)
Medium/Technique
Earthenware: unslipped
Dimensions
8.7 x 12.7 cm (3 7/16 x 5 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 Number1971.498
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CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsCeramics – Pottery – Earthenware
DescriptionSmall jar with low neck and body modeled in a gourd-like shape with six bulbous forms around the jar's midpoint. A thin band of small indentations encircles the jar above these forms. See 1971.499 for a very similar jar.
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.