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Vessel: Jaguar(?)
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About this work
Artists of the Pataky style excelled in animal portrayals that typically combine a modeled head with a flat, boldly patterned vessel chamber, punned as the animal's body. The animals' meanings are unstudied, though it seems important that many strike human poses-creatures that combine human and animal traits often have mythic import.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineVessel: Jaguar(?), c. 1000–1550. Costa Rica, Southern Nicoya region, Pataky Polychrome style. Ceramic, slip; overall: 34.6 x 27 x 27.6 cm (13 5/8 x 10 5/8 x 10 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, James Albert and Mary Gardiner Ford Memorial Fund, 1969.108
