Creamware bowl
A.D. 450–650
Object PlaceVeracruz, Mexico
Medium/TechniqueEarthenware with slip paint, incising
DimensionsOverall: 19.1 cm (7 1/2 in.)
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds donated by Lavinia and Landon T. Clay
Accession number2007.49
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Not on viewClassificationsCeramics
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Veracruz pottery is renowned for its simple, elegant shapes and its fine-grained clay bodies, which permitted incised lines mimicking painting. The image on this bowl may depict a denuded warrior prepared for ritual sacrifice; he holds a processional staff, and a rope encircles his neck.
ProvenanceProbably excavated in Veracruz, Mexico. By 1966, Jay C. Leff (b. 1925 – d. 2000), Uniontown, PA [see note 1]; November 17, 2006, Leff estate sale, Sotheby’s, New York, lot 359, to the MFA. (Accession Date: February 21, 2007)
NOTES:
[1] Included in the exhibition “Ancient Art of Latin America from the Collection of Jay C. Leff” (Brooklyn Museum, November 22, 1966 – March 5, 1967), cat. no. 353.
NOTES:
[1] Included in the exhibition “Ancient Art of Latin America from the Collection of Jay C. Leff” (Brooklyn Museum, November 22, 1966 – March 5, 1967), cat. no. 353.
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