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Collections

Spotted Animal Whistling Vessel100 BCE–800 CE

On view:
Geffen Galleries, Ancestral Ceramics from Panama and Colombia
Ceramic animal-form vessel with four legs, arched loop handle, and short spout, decorated with terracotta spots on dark slip and geometric painted designs
Ceramic effigy vessel in the form of a four-legged animal with a modeled head at one end and a spout at the other, connected by an arched handle. Dark slip ground decorated with large terracotta-red spots across the body, with painted band details on the legs.
Title
Spotted Animal Whistling Vessel
Culture
Calima Yotoco
Place Made
Colombia, Calima Region (Yotoco Period)
Date Made
100 BCE–800 CE
Medium
Earthenware with resist-painted slip
Dimensions
7 1/4 × 9 1/2 in. (18.4 × 24.1 cm)
Credit Line
The Muñoz Kramer Collection, gift of Camilla Chandler Frost and Stephen and Claudia Muñoz-Kramer
Accession Number
M.2007.146.283
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.