Bowl

MOA: University of British Columbia

2990/154

Bowl with red-brown paint in the interior and rim, light-orange rounded base. Painted decoration on surface with white outlined beans with red-brown, light-orange and grey centres on black ground with light-orange dividing lines. Smoothed surface and moulded manufacture technique. Unrestored.


  • Type of Item bowl
  • Culture Nasca
  • Material clay, paint
  • Measurements height 7.0 cm, diameter 15.5 cm (overall)

  • Previous Owner Alan R. Sawyer, Erika H. Sawyer
  • Received from Erika H. Sawyer

  • Made in Nasca

  • Creation Date between 101 BCE and 800
  • Collection Date between 1950 and 1975
  • Ownership Date before January 15, 2013
  • Acquisition Date on January 15, 2013

  • Item Classes ceramics
  • Condition fair
  • Accession Number 2990/0154