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Seated Male with Copper Nose Ring700–1600 CE

Not on view
Ceramic standing figure with oversized flat-topped rectangular head, terracotta-red slip, painted dot patterns, nose ring ornament, and simplified arms and legs
Ceramic standing figure with a large rectangular head decorated with dark painted dot patterns and horizontal bands; smoothed terracotta surface with a ring ornament at the nose, arms bent at the sides, and small hands and feet.
Ceramic standing figure with a large rectangular head featuring painted geometric patterns in dark pigment and small perforations along the top edge. The buff-orange earthenware body has rounded, simplified limbs and a circular ear ornament. Traces of painted decoration remain on the face and head.
Terracotta ceramic figure with a wide, flat-topped head, two loop handles at the sides suggesting arms, and a rectangular body; warm reddish-brown clay with dark charring or painted markings on the upper portion.
Title
Seated Male with Copper Nose Ring
Culture
Middle Cauca
Place Made
Colombia, Middle Cauca, Caldas
Date Made
700–1600 CE
Medium
Black-on-red resist-painted ceramic
Dimensions
18 × 10 × 4 1/2 in. (45.72 × 25.4 × 11.43 cm)
Credit Line
The Muñoz Kramer Collection, gift of Jorge G. and Nelly de Muñoz and Camilla Chandler Frost
Accession Number
M.2007.146.276
Classification
Ceramics
Collecting Area
Art of the Ancient Americas