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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.
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.