Description (CMS Description)
On catalogue card for Z 11053: 'Food bowl more rounded at one end that of the other with the frigate bird head and breast at the rounded end and inverted bird design at the other. Beautifully incised at each end but plain in the middle'.
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
Labels & inscriptions: 'Z 11053' and 'O.VI.29.4.H' ['4' in superscript] inscribed in white ink on the side of the bowl. Old display label kept inside the bowl reads: 'Food bowl more rounded at one end that of the other with the frigate bird head and breast at the rounded end and inverted bird design at the other. Beautifully incised at each end but plain in the middle'.
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
There was no donor associated to this object but the presence of a 'G' on the old number 'O.VI.29.4.G' on the object indicates that originally in the collection of Sir Arthur Gordon (Lord Stanmore)
Event Date 25/10/2016
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (CMS Description)
Two small shell inlays inside the bowl.
Event Date 25/10/2016
Author: Lucie Carreau