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{
    "localId": "144269",
    "label": "Vessel: Jaguar(?)",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object"
}

{
    "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",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1969.108",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q60744815"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramic"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1969.108/1969.108_web.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1969.108/1969.108_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1969.108/1969.108_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 34.6 x 27 x 27.6 cm (13 5/8 x 10 5/8 x 10 7/8 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Costa Rica, Southern Nicoya region, Pataky Polychrome style"
    ],
    "accession": "1969.108"
}

{
    "tec": "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",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152307"
        },
        {
            "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"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1969.108",
    "creditline": "James Albert and Mary Gardiner Ford Memorial Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 07:24:15.162000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1969.108/1969.108_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 144269,
    "dept": "Art of the Americas",
    "coll": "AA - Intermediate Region",
    "med": "ceramic, slip",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1969.108/1969.108_web.jpg",
    "mediaId": "4b0188731c66e64b"
}