Unknown artist, Greater Nicoya, Pacific coast of Nicaragua. Tripod Jar in Form of Anthropomorphized Jaguar, 800–1250 CE. Slip-painted ceramic, 11 ¾ x 8 ⅞ x 9 ¼ inches. Denver Art Museum Collection: Gift of the Collection of Frederick and Jan Mayer, 2017.270.

height: 11 3/4 in, 29.8450 cm; width: 8 7/8 in, 22.5425 cm; depth: 9 1/4 in, 23.4950 cm

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Unknown Artist
Tripod Jar in Form of Jaguar
Pataky Polychrome style
About A.D. 800-1250
Nicaragua, Greater Nicoya region
Ceramic with colored slips
Gift of the Collection of Frederick and Jan Mayer, 2017.270

Collection of Dr. José Gonzáles; Purchase (Brummer Gallery), New York, April 1939; Purchase Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI, May 1939; (Sotheby, Parke-Bernet), New York, Auction of Cranbrook Collections, May 4, 1972, lot 208; Purchase Frederick R. [1928-2007] and Jan Mayer, Denver CO, 1972 [1]; Gift to the Denver Art Museum, 2017 [1] Loaned to the Denver Art Museum starting 1992

• "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).