Jar
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1880
name: label: Maker
content: Undetermined artist
notes: label: Label Text
content: African potters--primarily women--handbuild a variety of vessels that they embellish with beautiful colors, designs and motifs before firing them at low temperatures. Containers made for daily use hold water or serve as cooking utensils. They also make vessels to be used in special ceremonies or that become part of an assemblage of objects placed in a shrine.
label: Description
content: Light colored bowl widening out from its base to the middle and then gradually narrowing towards the top. A series of incised parallel horizontal lines go around the shoulder.
label: Provenance
content: Mission collection, Congo Free State (Democratic Republic of the Congo), before 1910
label: Provenance
content: Jan Elsen collection, Belgium
label: Content Statement
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label: Image Requests
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place: label: Geography
content: Democratic Republic of the Congo
topic: label: Topic
content: male
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content: National Museum of African Art Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Purchased with funds provided by the Smithsonian Collections Acquisition Program
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Object number
content: 89-13-16
objectType: label: Type
content: Ceramics
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Ceramic
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 18.7 x 23.1 x 23.1 cm (7 3/8 x 9 1/8 x 9 1/8 in.)