Clay bull. Animal stands on short legs, neck wide and muscular, head held high with large curving horns to either side of a mop of tightly curling hair. Dewlap is pronounced below throat, and stomach is rounded and hangs low. Tail curves up onto back. At top centre of back is a hole with a short neck and rounded rim leading into the hollow centre of the vessel. Right side of animal has incised designs on hip and withers, and is covered in a shiny mottled brown glaze. Opposite side is matte.

Clay bull. Animal stands on short legs, neck wide and muscular, head held high, with short horns above protruding ears to either side of a mop of hair. Brow is prominent and holds two etched eyes while snout shows an incised mouth and nostrils. Stomach is rounded and hangs low, each side painted with a large oval of red-brown. Tail curves up onto back and is decorated in a stamped herringbone pattern. At top centre of back is a hole with a short neck and rounded rim leading into the hollow centre of the vessel.

Clay bull. Animal stands with head raised on a wide muscular neck, horns curving to the front over small square ears. Eyes are incised, as are nostrils and mouth, and tongue rises to lick nose. Loops of clay decorate the face and fall down the animal’s chest in a double row. Pin wheels are placed at edges of mouth, on head, back of neck and sides of stomach. Tail curves to rest on back and falls to the side, long and wide, with defined hair at end. On centre of back is a hole surrounded by a tall flaring neck that leads into the hollow centre of the vessel. Figure is painted a mottled orange and yellow-green overall with brown lines and swirls and the outlines of a saddle.

Robert B. Woodward Memorial Fund

The Elizabeth Cole Butler Collection.

The Elizabeth Cole Butler Collection.

The Elizabeth Cole Butler Collection.

Feline shaped vessel. Cat sits with front paws out straight, rear paws to one side. Lenticular eyes, round ears, open mouth showing canines, opening on back of head and curved tail. (Front and rear paws appear to be fragments from a different ceramic; opening on back of head appears to have previously been part of a stirrup spout pot?) Broken; partially repaired. Part b is a black fragment, from the body.

Gift of Dr. John H. Finney

Gift of the Ernest Erickson Foundation, Inc.