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Bowl

MOA: University of British Columbia

3111/7

Polychrome bowl with rounded base, globular body and everted rim. Painted design of eight sprouting beans with triangular shape and geometrical decoration, divided by vertical black lines; cream ground. Inner rim is black and outer rim and band near base are red-brown; undecorated base. Beans are in black, orange-brown, red-brown and grey. Molded manufacture; polished surface.

  • Narrative

    Rosita Tovell's father was a collector of Peruvian pre-Columbian ceramics. Rosita moved to Peru in the early 1960s, while her husband served as ambassador to Peru and Bolivia. During this time Rosita began to study and collect pre-Columbian Peruvian ceramics and textiles.

  • Type of Item bowl
  • Culture Nasca
  • Material clay, paint
  • Measurements height 12.1 cm, diameter 16.1 cm (overall)
  • Previous Owner Rosita LeSueur Tovell, Susan Moogk, Patricia Skahan, Peter H.M. Tovell, Rosemarie L. Tovell
  • Received from Susan Moogk, Rosemarie L. Tovell, Peter H.M. Tovell, Patricia Skahan
  • Made in Ica
  • Creation Date between 101 BCE and 800
  • Collection Date before 1950
  • Ownership Date before May 21, 2015
  • Acquisition Date on May 21, 2015
  • Item Classes ceramics
  • Condition good
  • Accession Number 3111/0007

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