Colima Joined Dogs Protoclassic, ca. 100 B.C.-A.D. 250

each upright on rear legs with forelegs joined and forming a spout on one side, the canines growling with whitened teeth, small oval eyes, one canine covered in reddish brown pigment, the other in paler orange brown.

Alan Long, New York
Ancient Art of the New World, New York
Marion and Mark Lynton, acquired from the above in 1996

Overall good, old break on the forelegs of the non-spouted arms; minor chip on the PR ear of the pale orange brown dog. Break and repair on the edge of the spout, all original pieces used. Otherwise very good, nice root marks and burnish overall.
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For another conjoined  effigy vessel of  'dancing dogs' from the William Palmer collection, see von Winning (1968: Fig. 92).