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Collections

Crab Vessel (alcarraza)1500 BCE–100 CE

On view:
Geffen Galleries, Pacific Connections in the Ancient Americas
Ceramic effigy vessel modeled as a crab with a brick-red slip body, incised claw details, and a stirrup spout handle in olive-gray clay
Ceramic effigy vessel in reddish-brown earthenware, modeled in the form of a crab with molded claws, legs, and nub eyes on the body; a stirrup spout rises from the top with two lateral tube spouts extending outward.
Title
Crab Vessel (alcarraza)
Culture
Calima Ilama
Place Made
Colombia, Calima, Ilama
Date Made
1500 BCE–100 CE
Medium
Slip-painted earthenware
Dimensions
5 1/2 × 6 × 5 in. (13.97 × 15.24 × 12.7 cm)
Credit Line
The Muñoz Kramer Collection, gift of Camilla Chandler Frost and Stephen and Claudia Muñoz-Kramer
Accession Number
M.2007.146.334
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.