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Pedestal Dish with Saurian Design800–1000 CE

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Ceramic footed bowl with wide shallow dish on tall pedestal base; interior decorated with swirling dark brown painted bands and curvilinear motifs on buff slip; two triangular cutouts pierce the foot
Ceramic bowl photographed from above, with a cream slip interior painted in dark brown and red-orange; a large curvilinear serpentine form spirals through the center, surrounded by concentric bands of geometric step and bar motifs, with a red-slipped exterior rim.
Title
Pedestal Dish with Saurian Design
Culture
Greater Coclé
Place Made
Panama, Macaracas style
Date Made
800–1000 CE
Style
Macaracas
Medium
Slip-painted ceramic
Dimensions
Height: 4 in. (10.16 cm); Diameter: 6 1/4 in. (15.88 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Drs. Alan Grinnell and Feelie Lee
Accession Number
M.2009.150.1
Classification
Ceramics
Collecting Area
Art of the Ancient Americas