Tripod Bowl with Serpent design
Unidentified maker (Costa Rica)
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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