Bowl (c. 500–1000): Art, History and Details
Bowl at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 500–1000, molded, carved, and burnished pottery. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Bowl (c. 500–1000) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
This mold-made ceramic bowl is decorated with a band of figures depicted in low relief. Most wear masks or grotesque headdresses, and four seem to struggle with deer. The meaning of the scene, which may be drawn from myth, is unknown.
Object facts
- Title: Bowl
- Date: c. 500–1000
- Culture: Mexico, South-central Veracruz
- Type: Sculpture
- Technique: molded, carved, and burnished pottery
- Dimensions: Diameter: 17.8 cm (7 in.); Overall: 11 x 18 cm (4 5/16 x 7 1/16 in.)
- Collection: AA - Mesoamerica
- Department: Art of the Americas
- Accession number: 1990.251
Collection credit
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Gruener
Further reading listed by the museum
- Young-Sánchez, Margaret. "The Gruener Collection of Pre-Columbian Art." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 79, no. 7 (1992): 234-75.
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See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.
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