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Toussian Pottery Water Jar
- Culture
- Toussian
- Origin
- Burkina Faso
- Period
- 20th century
- Object
- Jar
- Materials
- Terracotta
- Dimensions
- approx. 35 cm high
- Catalogue
- TRB-021
A blackened terracotta water vessel with a rounded base and distinctive incised and impressed decoration across the surface. There are old minor chips to the rim.
Provenance
Estate of Thomas McNemar (1931–2020), who lived and collected throughout Central and West Africa in the 1960s and 1970s and established galleries of African art in New York and San FranciscoAcquired
Hilliard & Co. · 2020
