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Blackware Jar with Snails(?)750–1600 CE

Not on view
Dark gray ceramic vessel with a wide, squat body, short flared neck, two small looped handles, and an incised crosshatch oval design on the front
Ceramic vessel with wide globular body and narrow flared neck, dark gray burnished surface with applied relief decoration of oval crosshatched panels and small loop handles at the shoulders.
Title
Blackware Jar with Snails(?)
Culture
Nariño or Carchi
Place Made
Colombia, Nariño, Capuli
Date Made
750–1600 CE
Style
Capuli
Medium
Blackware ceramic
Dimensions
4 × 5 1/2 in. (10.16 × 13.97 cm)
Credit Line
The Muñoz Kramer Collection, gift of Camilla Chandler Frost and Stephen and Claudia Muñoz-Kramer
Accession Number
M.2007.146.74
Classification
Ceramics
Collecting Area
Art of the Ancient Americas