bowl
- Museum number
- Am1984,13.2
- Description
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Pottery bowl with red painted interior and painted cream with black and red geometric decoration on exterior
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 21.60 centimetres
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Height: 9.40 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1984
- Acquisition notes
- Purchased by David Attenborough for donation to the Museum of Mankind at Sotheby's sale of 9th April 1984, Lot 643 "Four Shipibo Pottery vessels one a large bulbous jar with tall slender neck and two handles, 31cm., another smaller with broad lip, 13.5cm., and two bowls 8 and 9 cm. all with orange and brown decoration painted on the cream ground. On the register entry, this collection is reported to have been acquired by an unnamed collector, probably in Peru, in 1905.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1984,13.2