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Collections

Human Figure Jar with Mouth as Spout800–1600 CE

Not on view
Unglazed terracotta ceramic vessel with a round body, off-center neck and open mouth, small loop handle, tab lugs, and a twisted clay band at the neck
Ceramic vessel with globular burnished body in warm reddish-brown earthenware, featuring a zoomorphic neck modeled to suggest an animal head with small applied pellet eyes, a cylindrical opening at top, and a coiled rope-like band at the neck junction, with two small strap handles on the body.
Ceramic vessel with globular body, flared neck, and two small loop handles at the shoulders; a small tab lug appears on the lower body; incised rope pattern encircles the neck; reddish-brown earthenware with mottled surface.

Unknown, Human Figure Jar with Mouth as Spout, 800–1600 CE (alternate view), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Muñoz Kramer Collection, gift of Camilla Chandler Frost and Stephen and Claudia Muñoz-Kramer, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Title
Human Figure Jar with Mouth as Spout
Culture
Calima Sonso
Place Made
Colombia, Calima Region (Sonso Period)
Date Made
800–1600 CE
Medium
Ceramic
Dimensions
H: 13 in. (33 cm); D: 11 in. (27.9 cm)
Credit Line
The Muñoz Kramer Collection, gift of Camilla Chandler Frost and Stephen and Claudia Muñoz-Kramer
Accession Number
M.2007.146.256
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.