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Earthen Images: Ceramics from Ancient America Through May 28th, 2006 Earthen Images: Ceramics from Ancient America is a new exhibition at the Norton Museum of Art, featuring 17 ceramic pieces from the Norton’s pre-Columbian collection. The exhibition will be on view in the Mizner Gallery through December 31. Admission is included in general museum admission. Civilizations flourished in the Americas for at least three thousand years before Christopher Columbus's first voyage. Conquest, environmental conditions and European colonization destroyed most of the material culture produced by these societies. Along with architectural remains and sculptures, ceramics are among the most enduring evidence of these societies. This installation, made possible by generous gifts to the Museum over the past twenty-five years, presents ceramic pieces from six different cultures that flourished during the first millennium of the Common Era, a period extending roughly from the times of Cleopatra and Julius Caesar through the formation of Christianity and Islam to the Viking invasions of Northern Europe. Although technical aspects of these ceramics are fascinating, it is equally interesting to discover the beliefs and traditions that lie embedded within these objects from Mexico's Nayarit, Colima and Veracruz cultures, the Maya of the Yucatan and Central America and the Moche and Nazca cultures of Peru. This exhibition is drawn from gifts made by collectors including members of the Paddock family: William, Elizabeth, Paul and Ann, who are enthusiastic collectors of pre-Columbian art; and the late Leonard and the late Sophie Davis who are best known to Norton Museum visitors for their contributions to the Museum's Chinese collection.

Veracruz (250 - 600) Seated image of Old Fire God Earthenware, traces of polychrome decoration bequest of Leonard and Sophie Davis, 2001.178 .	Maya, Late Classic (ca. 600–900) Cylinder vase, polychrome ceramic, Gift of Mr. Paul Paddock, 82.50

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