Pottery Whistle
| Title | Pottery Whistle |
|---|---|
| Date | ca. 800–1525 9th century |
| Medium | Clay |
| Classification | Aerophone-Whistle Flute-whistle |
| Origin | Costa Rican Costa Rican |
| Holding institution | The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| Credit line | The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889 |
| Rights | Public domain (CC0). Free to use for any purpose. |
About this artwork
“Pottery Whistle” is a work of unattributed authorship, dated ca. 800–1525. It is executed in clay and classified as aerophone-whistle flute-whistle. In this archive it sits within the ornithological plates tradition. This work is in the public domain (CC0), so the image may be downloaded and reused for any purpose without permission (see the licence note below).
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Dated to ca. 800–1525. Explore the wider set of works from the 9th century held in the archive.
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Recorded origin: Costa Rican. Browse more public-domain art from Costa Rican.
The collection
Made available through the The Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access programme, which explicitly places this work in the public domain.
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