Tripod molded bowl with flaring sides and burnished surface. Terracotta with red-brown cream and black slip. Interior surface has a painted decoration of two cream serpents with axial black stripes in two dotted red-brown fields, separated by a double cream and black vertical band, joining a cream ring band at the centre of interior. Outer rim has a red-brown band. Complete.

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• Type of Item bowl
• Culture Cajamarca
• Material clay, paint
• Measurements height 8.4 cm, diameter 15.0 cm (overall)

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

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• Made in Ancash

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• Creation Date between 1000 and 1476
• Collection Date between 1950 and 1975
• Ownership Date before January 15, 2013
• Acquisition Date on January 15, 2013

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• Item Classes ceramics
• Condition fair
• Accession Number 2990/0516