Object Details
Culture
Jama-Coaque (Ecuador)
Date
300 BC-400 AD
Medium
Earthenware
Dimensions
4 5/16 × 5 1/2 × 3 15/16 inches (11 × 14 × 10 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Thomas Carroll, PhD 1951
Object
Number
2006.070.086
This is a polychrome ceramic Jama-Coaque cylindrical vessel with an elaborate flange rim on a square(…)
This is a polychrome ceramic Jama-Coaque cylindrical vessel with an elaborate flange rim on a square slab platform foot. Attached to opposing sides of the rim are mold made solid ceramic female effigies. Modeled and applied bird effigies perch on opposite sides of the rim between the suspended humans. The platform has an elaborate stamped pattern.
