Medium: Ceramic, red slip
Geograhical Locations:
Dates:800–1500
Dimensions: 7 1/2 x 9 x 9 1/4 in. (19.1 x 22.9 x 23.5 cm)
Collections:
Accession Number: 31.989
Image: CUR.31.989_view1.jpg,
Catalogue Description: Large dark brown tripod jar with hollow legs in the form of stylized human heads with thin rectangular slits for the eyes and mouth. The vessel has a squat, globular body; narrow neck; and flared, flat rim. The shoulders of the vessel are decorated with modeled appliqué animals (2 monkeys? and 2 crocodiles?), and vertical incised lines and bands of appliqué coffee-bean forms. The interior rim is covered with burnished red slip and there is red pigment around the appliqué animals. The ceramic style is La Cabaña Fine. Condition: fair; a section of the rim is broken and missing and a small pieced of it is plaster fill; two of the faces on the legs are chipped.