Bowl with Flower Motif

Description Possibly made during the colonial period, this simple bowl shows a many-petalled flower and accompanying leaves. This may have been merely decorative, or may refer to a sacred, possibly hallucenogenic, plant of the coastal region in which it was made.

Provenance New World Antiquities, San Francisco [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Private collection, 1988, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 2009, by gift.

Credit Anonymous gift, 2009