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Bowl with Zoomorphic Creature1200–800 BCE

Not on view
Cylindrical blackware ceramic bowl with wide, shallow form and continuous band of incised geometric relief decoration around the exterior walls

Unknown, Bowl with Zoomorphic Creature, 1200–800 BCE (alternate view), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Purchased with funds provided by Camilla Chandler Frost, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Title
Bowl with Zoomorphic Creature
Culture
Olmec
Place Made
Mexico, Valley of Mexico
Date Made
1200–800 BCE
Medium
Slip-painted ceramic with post-fire pigment
Dimensions
Diameter: 9 1/8 in. (23.18 cm) Height: 4 in. (10.16 cm)
Credit Line
Purchased with funds provided by Camilla Chandler Frost
Accession Number
M.2002.13
Classification
Stone
Collecting Area
Art of the Ancient Americas
Selected Bibliography
  • Berrin, Kathleen, and Virginia M. Fields, eds. Olmec: Colossal Masterworks of Ancient Mexico. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010.
  • Fields, Virginia M. and Dorie Reents-Budet. Lords of Creation: The Origins of Sacred Maya Kingship. London: Scala Publishers Limited; LACMA, 2005.
  • O'Neil, Megan E. Forces of Nature: Ancient Maya Arts from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Beijing Shi: Wen wu chu ban she, 2018.
  • Magaloni, Diana, Davide Domenici, and Alyce de Carteret. We Live in Painting: the Nature of Color in Mesoamerican Art. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2024.