Shallow round Inca ceramic tray with dark mottled interior and reddish side band painted with cream nested rectangles, on gray background.

Miniature Tray with Geometric Pattern, Inca

A shallow, round tray with a mottled dark brown interior and small lugs at its sides rests on a neutral gray background. Its reddish-orange outer wall carries a band of cream-painted nested rectangles, a geometric pattern set on a ceramic vessel.

Artist: Inca
Date: 1450–1532
Medium: Ceramic and pigment
Source: Art Institute of Chicago
Size: 1686 × 949 px

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Public domain · Art Institute of Chicago releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1532).
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Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, Kate S. Buckingham Endowment

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