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Collections

Footed Bowl with Guardian Snakes800–1600 CE

Not on view
Ceramic footed bowl with buff-colored body, three modeled animal-head attachments at the rim, painted geometric meander border inside, and undulating line band on exterior
Title
Footed Bowl with Guardian Snakes
Culture
Muisca
Place Made
Colombia, Eastern Cordillera (Muisca Period)
Date Made
800–1600 CE
Medium
Slip-painted ceramic
Dimensions
H: 3 3/4 in. (9.5 cm); D: 6 1/2 in. (16.5 cm)
Credit Line
The Muñoz Kramer Collection, gift of Camilla Chandler Frost and Stephen and Claudia Muñoz-Kramer
Accession Number
M.2007.146.660
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.