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Clay vessel

Small, bulbous vessel with a flattened base and retracting rim. The object has been smoothed and slurried on both sides. Its exterior was primed, painted and highly polished. The painting is partially eroded. The object was assembled from several fragments. The ceramic has a white-brownish base colour, which is painted black. Its exterior is decorated with a frieze running around the lower edge, which shows geometric motifs (stepped elements?). On the body there are two opposing pictorial fields depicting two different stylised cats of prey. The inside of the object remains undecorated. After Lothrop 1926: silhouette-jaguar, type A. Cultural significance: the Galo and Carrillo Policromo groups (800-500d.C.) represent the first truly polychrome ceramics produced in the Gran Nicoya region. Their design (shape, colouring, individual motifs) is strongly reminiscent of the Ulua Policromo group (950-550d.C.). (Künne 2004)

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Cataloguing data

Object type
crock
Dimensions
Diameter: 7,5 cm
Height: 10,7 cm
Depth: 13,3 cm
Width: 13,4 cm
Wandstärke: 0,75 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
IV Ca 41076

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Policromo Antiguo (500 - 800)
    where
    Nicaragua
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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