bell;
toy
- Museum number
- Am1978,15.570
- Description
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Bell; made of pottery; white slip; in the form of woman; conical dress, hem trimmed with circles of pottery, cape trimmed with circles, wide-brimmed hat trimmed with circles; hole cut in skirt; string threaded around arm, through hole and around pottery clapper; circles painted brown.
- Production date
- 1970s
- Dimensions
-
Diameter: 7 centimetres
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Height: 11.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- See Espejel, Carlos. Cerámica Popular Mexicana. Barcelona: Editoria Blume, 1975, pp. 208-9.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
-
Exhibited:
1977-1978, London, Horniman Museum
- Acquisition date
- 1978
- Acquisition notes
- Objects collected during the 1970s by Chloë Sayer and Marcos Ortiz. They were exhibited in 1977-1978 at the Horniman Museum, and later acquired by the British Museum.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1978,15.570