Polychrome Bottle
In the centuries before the arrival of Europeans, artists in the region that is now Arkansas created slips (suspensions of minerals in water) to paint buff-colored ceramics such as the present example, created using the coiling method. Such vessels were part of the ritual life of the moundbuilding Mississippian culture found in the Midwestern, Eastern, and Southeastern United States between A.D. 800 and the beginnings of the historic period circa 1600.
Artwork Details
- Title: Polychrome Bottle
- Date: 14th–15th century
- Geography: United States, Arkansas
- Culture: Mississippian (Ancestral Quapaw)
- Medium: Clay
- Dimensions: H. 9 1/4 × W. 8 3/8 × D. 8 9/16 in. (23.5 × 21.3 × 21.7 cm)
- Classification: Ceramics-Vessels
- Credit Line: Gift of Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie, in celebration of the Museum's 150th Anniversary, 2019
- Object Number: 2019.565.8
- Curatorial Department: The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing
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