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Jar with Open Mouth (Gritón)600–1500 CE

On view:
Geffen Galleries
Small ceramic vessel with squat rounded form, terracotta-red slip, and bold dark brown diagonal stripes and triangular painted motifs; offset neck with a modeled sculptural element at the rim
Ceramic vessel viewed from above, red-slipped with dark painted diagonal stripe pattern; a modeled face with closed eyes and wide-open mouth forms the vessel opening at center.
Title
Jar with Open Mouth (Gritón)
Culture
Nariño or Carchi
Place Made
Colombia, Nariño, Capuli
Date Made
600–1500 CE
Style
Capuli
Medium
Black-on-red resist-painted ceramic
Dimensions
(Diameter): 3 1/2 × 3 1/2 in. (8.9 × 8.9 cm)
Credit Line
The Muñoz Kramer Collection, gift of Camilla Chandler Frost and Stephen and Claudia Muñoz-Kramer
Accession Number
M.2007.146.65
Classification
Ceramics
Collecting Area
Art of the Ancient Americas
Selected Bibliography
  • Burtenshaw, Julia, Héctor García Botero, Diana Magaloni, and María Alicia Uribe Villegas. The Portable Universe = El Universo en tus Manos: Thought and Splendor of Indigenous Colombia. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2022.