Animal Effigy Vessel
Unknown Artist
1000–1550
Medium
earthenware with colored slips
Dimensions
29.5 × 22.1 × 29.8 cm
Classification
Ceramic
Department
Art of the Americas
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
Accession Number
1997.3
About this artwork
The Pataky style excells in animal portrayals that combine a modeled head with a flat vessel chamber that doubles as the animal’s body. It may be important that many of these animals strike human poses; creatures that combine the human and animal often have mythic import.