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were rectangular and a few had handles. Most of them were from 

 Antioquia. 

 The painting is always in three colors red, white, and black. Yellow 



appears in the paste, 

 often tint varying from 

 vessels are in simple 



One is agreeably 

 of ideas and compo- 

 Colombiaii potter, who 

 to taste as the potter 

 country. The great 

 lombian ware makes 

 thing more than to 



The imitation of nat- 

 pears to culminate in 

 ticed sparingly in Co- 

 aud melons were ex- 

 well as shells, birds, etc. 



and the light slip has 

 cream to gray. Many 

 white and black, 

 struck with the variety 

 sition of the antique 

 has quite as good claim 

 of any other age or 

 variety of form of Co- 

 it difficult to do any- 

 hint at the groups, 

 ural forms, which ap- 

 Peru, begins to be prac- 

 lombia, where gourds 

 actly represented, as 

 The globose bowl, which is a gourd form, is 



Fig. 42. 

 TAZZA, WITH PIERCED FOOT. 



Colombia. 



not very common. There were a number of these from Chibchas, often 

 with conical base (fig. 39). Supports for vessels of this character are 

 found (fig. 40). 



The bowls with a foot seem to grow out of this rest (fig. 41). One 

 rather shallow decorated bowl of this kind 

 from the Museo de Zea, in Medellin, is a 

 beautiful specimen of elegant form, with small 

 legs at the rim and the flaring foot with a 

 double tier of cuneiform openings like the 

 Korean (fig. 42). 



There were many small elliptic cups from 

 the Quimbayas. A number of small gravy- 

 bowl vessels of dark incised ware, apparently 

 soaked in oil, with traces of burning, might 

 be called lamps. If so, they are unique. 



Vases are very numerous and of great vari 

 ety of form and ornamentation. Some are of 

 human form, like those of Peru, with or with 

 out support. One jarlike vase, with two pairs 

 of lugs and flat bottom from Antigua, is of 

 perfect Hispano-Moresqueform (fig. 43). It is 

 engraved, and the height is 12 centimeters. 



A very pretty vase has the form of a bird, with whistle in the tail; a 

 handle springs up from the head. It is Quimbaya. The device of put 

 ting small balls of clay in the feet of vessels to form a rattle is found 

 in Colombia. 



A curious hemispherical pottery vessel of the Chibchas has two lugs 



ig. 43. 

 JAR OF HISPANO-MORESQUE FORM. 



Antiqua, Colombia. 



