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Collections

Gourd-shaped Vessel100 BCE–800 CE

On view:
Geffen Galleries, Ancestral Ceramics from Panama and Colombia
Ceramic vessel with squat globular body and curved beak-like spout, decorated with painted geometric and spiral motifs in dark brown on terracotta red
Title
Gourd-shaped Vessel
Culture
Calima Yotoco
Place Made
Colombia, Calima Region (Yotoco Period)
Date Made
100 BCE–800 CE
Medium
Earthenware with resist-painted slip
Dimensions
H: 7 in. (17.8 cm); D: 6 7/8 in. (17.5 cm)
Credit Line
The Muñoz Kramer Collection, gift of Camilla Chandler Frost and Stephen and Claudia Muñoz-Kramer
Accession Number
M.2007.146.245
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.