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Source Description
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.
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Document identity
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160041
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Animal Effigy Vessel
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object
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160041
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object
title
Animal Effigy Vessel
description
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.
date
1000–1550
citation
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CC0
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CC0
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en
wikidata
Q60758449
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Ceramic
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1
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Overall: 29.5 x 22.1 x 29.8 cm (11 5/8 x 8 11/16 x 11 3/4 in.)
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Costa Rica, Southern Nicoya region, Pataky Polychrome style
accession
1997.3
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earthenware with colored slips
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Animal 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
collection
AA - Intermediate Region
citations
citation
Cleveland Museum of Art, “Major Neoclassical Marble, Rare Korean Sculpture, Other Recent CMA Acquisitions Now on View,” April 16, 1997, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
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Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
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2026-05-29 08:18:32.215000
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160041
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Art of the Americas
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AA - Intermediate Region
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earthenware with colored slips
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