Accession Number

1999.012.0129

Description

Artifact drawing of silver dish.
Multiple-lobed shallow-circular dish, having a beaded rim and wide molded border elaborately decorated with various scenes of daily Peruvian life, the multiple-lobed center having a circular strapped reserve decorated with a stylized central shielded cartouche mounted with a winged bird. 
 

Exhibition Label

Case Caption (2023): N/A
Object Caption (2023):

Drawing of Dish
Ink on paper (c. 1985)
Gift of Dolores Fisher
1999.012.0129

The dish in this case suffered from its many years in the ocean but the encrustation in which it was found held the imprint of the whole dish, allowing this drawing to be completed.