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Tripod dish
Atlantic Watershed culture, Costa Rica
Late Period V - Period VI
800–1400 CE
Findspot: Costa Rica, Altantic Watershed
Medium/Technique
Earthenware, with brown slip paint, incising
Dimensions
Overall: 8.8 x 19.4 cm (3 1/2 x 7 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of J. Denis Glover and Sydney L. Glover
Accession Number2011.2084
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CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsCeramics – Pottery – Earthenware
DescriptionBrown-slipped dish with small tripod supports and a band of alternating incised geometric motifs.
ProvenanceAbout 1905, excavated by members of the Lindo Family on the Lindo Brothers’ coffee plantation in Juan Viñas, between the cities of Limón and San José, Costa Rica; about 1910, brought to the United States by Daisy Lindo Lewis (later Daisy Voorhis, b. 1883 – d. 1964) and kept in her homes in Wheeling, WV, Cambridge, MA, and South Yarmouth, MA; 1964, by descent to her daughter, Doris Lindo Lewis Henríquez (b. 1909 – d. 1995), West Palm Beach, FL; 1995, by descent to her daughter, Sydney Lewis Glover, and Denis Glover, Chatham, MA; 2011, year-end gift of Denis and Sydney Glover to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 25, 2012)