Tripod Bowl with Serpent design

Unidentified maker (Costa Rica)

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800-1200

Terracotta with pigment

Overall: 10 7/16 × 5 11/16 in. (26.5 × 14.5 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Bequest of Emily Howe Hitchcock, Class of 1872HW

12.3.561

Geography

Place Made: Greater Nicoya area, Nicoya, Costa Rica, Central America

Period

500-1000

Object Name

Pottery

Research Area

Americas

Not on view

Exhibition History

Globalization in Ancient Costa Rican Arts, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 25-October 1, 2006.

Provenance

Collected by Baron Henri Guillaume Arnous de Riviere (1828-1909), possibly about 1865; Hiram Hitchcock (1832-1900); bequeathed to Emily Howe Hitchcock (1852-1912), 1900; bequeathed to present collection, 1912.

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