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Colander200 BCE–1000 CE

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Unglazed ceramic vessel with large spherical body and short neck, covered in a dense allover pattern of small circular perforations, in mottled olive-gray clay
Ceramic vessel with globular body and short cylindrical neck, covered overall in a regular grid of small impressed dots; unglazed earthenware in muted gray-brown tones with mottled surface.
Title
Colander
Place Made
Colombia, Caribbean Lowlands (Modeled and Painted Ceramic Tradition)
Date Made
200 BCE–1000 CE
Medium
Ceramic
Dimensions
H: 11 in. (27.9 cm); D: 10 3/8 in. (26.4 cm)
Credit Line
The Muñoz Kramer Collection, gift of Camilla Chandler Frost and Stephen and Claudia Muñoz-Kramer
Accession Number
M.2007.146.604
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.

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