Fig. 94. Cup with legs imitating animal forms—½.
It will be seen that in a number of cases the legs are modeled to represent animal forms. This feature is brought out more clearly in succeeding figures. The creatures represented are often grotesque, as seen in Figs. 94 and 95. The human form is rarely shown in a way to make it clearly distinguishable from the figures of monkeys and other animals. The armadillo is a favorite subject. An example of
small dimensions is illustrated in Fig. 96, in which this animal is given in characteristic style, and a more pretentious piece is shown in Fig. 97. The characteristics of the creature are very simply but graphically expressed. In the first the hard ribbed and figured case is represented by applied fillets and nodes, and in the other by incised lines. The frog is also much used (Fig. 98). A rather remarkable conception is illustrated in Fig. 99. Upon the front of each leg is a curious little animal-like figure, to the front of which are bound two minute infantile creatures. In the piece presented in Fig. 100, the
legs are grotesque heads, inverted, with wide open mouths and glaring eyes. The work upon this vase is very superior.
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| Cup with legs imitating a grotesque animal form—½. | Cups with legs imitating the armadillo—½. | |
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| Fig. 98. Cup with frog shaped legs—½. | Fig. 99. Cup with legs imitating an animal and its young—½. |
Fig. 100. Cup supported by grotesque heads—½.
The remarkable specimen illustrated in Fig. 101 is furnished with unique supports. Two rudely modeled, semihuman, grotesque figures are affixed to the under surface of the bowl, supporting it with their backs.