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Owl Vessel500 BCE–500 CE

Not on view
Small unglazed earthenware vessel with a rounded, gourd-like body, two applied knob eyes, a beak-like ridge, faded red painted lines, and a short rectangular spout
Ceramic vessel with a globular lower body and rounded upper chamber, unglazed buff-gray clay with faint red painted vertical lines on the lower section, a loop handle at the top, small spout, and two lateral nub projections.
Title
Owl Vessel
Culture
Tumaco-La Tolita
Place Made
Colombia and Ecuador, Pacific Coast (Tumaco-La Tolita Tradition)
Date Made
500 BCE–500 CE
Medium
Ceramic with traces of red paint
Dimensions
6 3/4 × 5 1/4 in. (17.15 × 13.34 cm)
Credit Line
The Muñoz Kramer Collection, gift of Camilla Chandler Frost and Stephen and Claudia Muñoz-Kramer
Accession Number
M.2007.146.548
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.