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Maker(s):Unknown
Culture:Mexican
Title:Platter (Platón)
Date Made:19th century
Type:Ceramic
Materials:glazed and incised earthenware
Place Made:North America; Mexico; Guanajuato
Measurements:Overall: 1 15/16 in x 12 3/16 in; 4.9 cm x 31 cm
Accession Number:  AC 1955.593
Credit Line:Gift of the children of Dwight W. Morrow (Class of 1895) and Elizabeth C. Morrow
Museum Collection:  Mead Art Museum at Amherst College
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Description:
Round platter with cream ground on interior and incised designs in yellow and brown, flowering plant in a yellow, green, and brown, "Lolita" inscribed above. High sides with alternating yellow and green oval desing. Bottom unglazed, Similar in design to 1955.594. Perhaps from town of Cornoneo.

Subjects:
Pottery; glaze (coating by location)

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