Vessel: Jaguar(?)
Unknown Artist
c. 1000–1550
Medium
ceramic, slip
Dimensions
{"overall":{"height":0.346,"width":0.27,"depth":0.276}}
Classification
Ceramic
Department
Art of the Americas
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
James Albert and Mary Gardiner Ford Memorial Fund
Accession Number
1969.108
About this artwork
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.