Tripod Jar with Applique Creatures

Tripod Jar with Applique Creatures

AD 300-800
Culture
Greater Nicoya
Locale
Reportedly from Finca El Viejo, Guanacaste
Country
Costa Rica
Style/Tradition
Santiago Applique
Object
jar
Medium
Modeled tan clay with red slip, applique, and fingernail-impressed decoration.
Accession Number
1995.761
Credit Line
Gift of Frederick and Jan Mayer
Tripod Jar with Applique Creatures. AD 300-800. Modeled tan clay with red slip, applique, and fingernail-impressed decoration.. Gift of Frederick and Jan Mayer. 1995.761.
Dimensions
height: 17.375 in, 44.1325 cm; diameter: 10.625 in, 26.9875 cm
Inscription
"G 1635" on bottom
Department
Mayer Center, Arts of the Ancient Americas
Collection
Arts of the Ancient Americas

Three tall, hollow legs with modeled figures support a jar with contrasting red-slipped and buff-colored zones. The upper half of the globular body is decorated with three panels of pellet-circles. The applique figures likely represent captives with arms bound above their heads.

Exhibition History
  • "Pre-Columbian Art of Costa Rica: From the Collection of Jan and Frederick R. Mayer." Clara A. Hatton Gallery, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, February (?)-March 4, 1977. (Traveled to: Maxwell Museum, Albuquerque, NM, October 12, 1977-May 30, 1978).

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