Cleveland Museum of Art
Vessel: Jaguar(?)
- Date
- c. 1000–1550
- Medium
- ceramic, slip
- Culture
- Costa Rica, Southern Nicoya region, Pataky Polychrome style
- Department
- Art of the Americas
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Artists of the Pataky style excelled in animal portrayals that typically combine a modeled head with a flat, boldly patterned vessel chamber, punned as the animal's body. The animals' meanings are unstudied, though it seems important that many strike human poses-creatures that combine human and animal traits often have mythic import.
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