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COLUMBIAN HISTORICAL EXPOSITION AT MADRID. 



Fig. 58. 



BOWL, WITH BOSSES. 

 Ibarra, Ecuador. 



A series of remarkable cream-colored bowls from the province of 



Picliincha have the inner surface painted with conventional designs in 



black and red. 



Sometimes well-modeled heads of animals are placed on the body 



of the large bottle-shaped vessels. 

 The most graceful forms are vases of good outline sometimes 2 feet 



high (fig. 40), bottles with very large body and narrow tubular neck, 



having lugs near the base; also one or more 

 projecting animal heads (fig. 47), and long 

 pointed amphora vases with two handles on 

 the swell of the body (fig. 48). The latter 

 piece seems very much out of place in 

 Ecuador, but there is every reason to believe 

 that it is American. 



The series of shallow decorated bowls, 

 and the same mounted on the flaring pedes 

 tal, having triangular openings (figs. 49, 50, 

 51, 52, and 53) 5 a bottle with cubical body 

 and flaring neck (fig. 54), are remarkably 



Korean in shape, and, leaving material out of consideration, would be 



without hesitation referred to that country. The bowls are from .the 



province of Pichincha, Yaruqui. 



Bottles with spheroidal bodies and tubular neck, with one or two 



handles, are frequent (figs. 55 and 56). The form of the burial jar is 



shown in fig. 57. The Ibarra bowls, of 



simple shape but of very smoothly tooled 



red ware of Samiaii color, were represented 



(fig. 58). 



A singularly beautiful vase from the prov 

 ince of Chimborazo has an inverted pear- 

 shaped body from which springs a tapering 



neck having two pierced loops on either 



side. The body is covered with a series of 



crescentic waves modeled in relief in the 



paste (fig. 59). 



A pottery vessel about 7 indies high, with 



slanting sides, is interesting from the pres 

 ence of a tube leading down the side to 



the bottom and projecting about one-half 



inch above the rim. The tube communicates 



with the interior of the vessel, which was 



used for drinking purposes (fig. GO). There 



is a superb gold vessel of this description ^ &amp;gt; &amp;gt;u . ulor 



in the Peruvian collection belonging to the 



Spanish Government and a pottery one in the Guatemalan exhibit. The 



idea is that of the European &quot;puzzle jugs,&quot; which had their origin in 



Fig. 59. 



