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Source Description
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.
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Document identity
localId
144269
label
Vessel: Jaguar(?)
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object
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1
Source metadata
id
144269
contentType
object
title
Vessel: Jaguar(?)
description
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.
date
c. 1000–1550
rights
CC0
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q60744815
genreSpecific
Ceramic
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Overall: 34.6 x 27 x 27.6 cm (13 5/8 x 10 5/8 x 10 7/8 in.)
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Costa Rica, Southern Nicoya region, Pataky Polychrome style
accession
1969.108
Source extras
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ceramic, slip
tombstone
Vessel: 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
collection
AA - Intermediate Region
citations
citation
Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1969.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 57, no. 1 (January 1970): 2–50.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 38, no. 118; Mentioned: p. 47, no. 118
citation
<em>30,000 Years of Art: The Story of Human Creativity Across Time and Space.</em> London ; New York: Phaidon, 2007.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: p. 612
creditline
James Albert and Mary Gardiner Ford Memorial Fund
updatedAt
2026-05-29 07:24:15.162000
sourceId
144269
dept
Art of the Americas
coll
AA - Intermediate Region
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ceramic, slip
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1
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0
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photo
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