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Animal Effigy Vessel
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About this work
The Pataky style excells in animal portrayals that combine a modeled head with a flat vessel chamber that doubles as the animal’s body. It may be important that many of these animals strike human poses; creatures that combine the human and animal often have mythic import.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineAnimal Effigy Vessel, 1000–1550. Costa Rica, Southern Nicoya region, Pataky Polychrome style. Earthenware with colored slips; overall: 29.5 x 22.1 x 29.8 cm (11 5/8 x 8 11/16 x 11 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund, 1997.3
