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A thread of very good, wonderful, truly Super Bowls.
Translucent agate bowl with ornamental grooves and coffee-and-cream marbling. Found near Qift in southern Egypt. 300 - 1,000 BC. 
Getty Museum https://bit.ly/36TbmPB pic.twitter.com/CDYfYew5W7
Technicolor dreambowl, found in a grave near Zadar on Croatia's Dalmatian Coast. Made by melding and winding thin bars of glass, each adulterated with different minerals to get different colors. 1st century AD. Zadar Museum of Ancient Glass https://bit.ly/3tAbzB4 pic.twitter.com/BUILj1HnEN
100,000-year-old abalone shells used to mix red ocher, marrow, charcoal, and water into a colorful paste. Possibly the oldest artist's palettes ever discovered. Blombos Cave, South Africa. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/334/6053/219 …pic.twitter.com/EAwXkSJz9D
Reed basket bowl with shell and feather ornaments. Possibly from the Southern Pomo or Lake Miwok cultures. Found in Santa Barbara, CA, circa 1770. British Museum https://bit.ly/3pYXVVW pic.twitter.com/Tx5afgsHIf
Wooden bowl with concentric circles and rounded rim, most likely made of umbrella thorn acacia (Vachellia/Acacia tortilis). Qumran. 1st Century BCE. https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/scrolls/art2.html …pic.twitter.com/MqPpjssDFT
Ribbed glass bowl, representing "a Roman manufacturing breakthrough that made high-quality glassware broadly affordable for the first time." 1st Century.
Cleveland Museum of Art
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A 2,400-year-old bronze bowl with still-liquid remnants of bone soup. The contents had oxidized and turned green. Discovered in a tomb near the ancient capital of Xian, China, while excavating for an airport extension.
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Some of the only remaining intact or semi-intact Yohen Tenmoku tea bowls. Southern Song dynasty, 12th-13th century. Housed at the Seikado Bunko Art Museum, Fujita Museum of Art, Daitoku-ji Temple, Miho Museum.
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Mesoamerican bowl in the shape of the rain deity Tlaloc. Veracruz. 600 to 900 CE. Arizona Museum of Natural History https://bit.ly/3rApB3V pic.twitter.com/uNaRx3bPV6
Golden bowl found at royal burial site in Mapungubwe Hill, South Africa. Mapungubwe Museumpic.twitter.com/RusdtTRYAN
Bowl in the form of a bird, shaped from highly polished red Nile clay. Found in Egypt, el-Mahasna, Tomb H. 39. 3850–3300 B.C. Boston Museum of Fine Arts https://bit.ly/2MJ7gCP pic.twitter.com/qUxtLbrnwo
Rock crystal bowl inlaid with gold and set with rubies, emeralds, and sapphire-blue glass. Late 16th – early 17th century. India, Deccan, or Mughal. Kuwait National Museumpic.twitter.com/rrqxDFvkrN
World's thinnest Hetian jade bowl, less than 1mm thick, Urumqi city, China (L) and a translucent carved jade bowl circa China 18th C https://bit.ly/3jwbnOv https://bit.ly/2MHweT7 pic.twitter.com/2p36lNCsMM
Intricately carved Mayan bowl, classical period (AD 250-600). National Museum of the American Indianpic.twitter.com/NxZIrMpLtd
The Gundestrup Cauldron, made of silver, depicting elephants, lions, unknown creatures and deities. Found in a peat bog in Denmark in 1891. Highly mysterious; much debated. True provenance unknown. Possibly 200 - 300 AD. National Museum of Denmark https://bit.ly/3pUETQq pic.twitter.com/C2WMVTcnD9
The Moundville Duck Bowl, a stunning example of indigenous Mississippian culture and craft, carved from a single piece of stone. Discovered in the early 1900s in Alabama. Made in the 13th or 14th C. Moundville Archaeological Parkpic.twitter.com/uQCvN3viWf
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