Jar with parrot-shaped supports

200 BC-AD 300 (Late Formative-Early Classic)

35.8 cm 25.2 cm 35.4 cm

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This jar, made of highly polished red earthenware, was likely a grave offering placed in a tomb in West Mexico. Many such vessels were made, with fluted sides possibly representing calabash fruits. More broadly, they represent the agricultural plenty which would have been need...

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Stendahl Galleries, Los Angeles [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; John G. Bourne, August 18, 1944, by purchase.
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en
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Terms

संस्कृति
Colima
माध्यम
earthenware, slip paint

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