Description
Female potters of the Aït Bouaddou and other Imazighen groups of Algeria’s mountainous Kabylie region embellish their ceramics for storing, preparing, and serving food with a variety of painted decorations. Drawing on a rich vocabulary of checkerboards, crosses, circles, and triangles, this boldly ornamented platter is enlivened with a symmetrical composition that develops outward from a central point.
Provenance
Unknown owner, Morocco, by about 1990; sold to Joan Barist Primitive Art, New York, N.Y., about 1990; sold to Throckmorton Fine Art, New York, N.Y., about 1995; sold to Tom Alexander, New York, N.Y., about 1995; sold to Keith Achepohl, about 1995; given to the Art Institute, 2005.
Accession Number
185714
Medium
Terracotta and pigment
Dimensions
45.1 × 45.1 × 7.7 cm (17 3/4 × 17 3/4 × 3 in.)
Classification
vessel
Credit Line
Gift of Keith Achepohl