Happy #GuineaPigAppreciationDay everypig!

For #GuineaPigAppreciationDay, here are two Chimú polychrome effigy vessels in the form of guinea pigs, North Coast Peru, 1100-1400 CE, now in the Museo de América collection. Both feature split-color black and white faces so I am posting three views of each. Here is the second one (10297):
https://ceres.mcu.es/pages/Viewer?accion=4&Museo=MAM&AMuseo=MAM&Ninv=10297&txt_id_imagen=7&txt_rotar=0&txt_contraste=0
#IndigenousArt

For #GuineaPigAppreciationDay, the two earliest examples I've found of #guineapigs in the European visual record:
1. Painting attributed to Giovanni da Udine, n.d., artist active early 1500s to death in 1564
2. Drawing from the Felix Platter album, collected sometime between 1546-54

Happy #GuineaPigAppreciationDay ! Please appreciate the delightful chins of Ester and Cliodhna.

Happy #GuineaPigAppreciationDay to our piggy friends! 😍💕

#GuineaPigAppreciationDay the late great Earl Grey, with Duke in the background

Happy #GuineaPigAppreciationDay! We love you all so much!! 🥰

Here's a pigture of my dear #GuineaPig Moxie 🌈 enjoying a summery treat!

@servantofsows Of course!! Ovie, you look very cozy! 🥰 Happy #GuineaPigAppreciationDay to every dear piggie in your home! 😘

@DAISYLittleOne1 Such a beautifully shaped loaf with the cutest little face! 🥰 Hoppy #GuineaPigAppreciationDay! 🥰

Hoppy #GuineaPigAppreciationDay to all my furriends! I hope you are properly appreciated with snac and skritches today!

Whee celebrate #GuineaPigAppreciationDay every day. of course. But here is Ovie (who was wrangled into lap time this morning)

On this #GuineaPigAppreciationDay I am allowing hoom to appreciate the perfect loaf that I am! #MsDaisy #guineapig #guineapigs

#holidays #WorldSnakeDay, #NationalAtomicVeteransDay, #NationalPersonalChefDay, #NationalIceCreamDay, #NationalCornFritterDay, #GuineaPigAppreciationDay, #FreshSpinachDay, #RuralTransitDay

Happy #GuineaPigAppreciationDay! For a fun collection of guinea pigs in early modern European art, check out Guinea Pigs in Art - A Pictorial Gallery:
https://www.guineapigarcade.com/historical-art-museum
#DYK Domestic guinea pigs, aka cavies (Cavia porcellus) are native to the Andes of South America, but they quickly found their way into Europe post-1492 and began showing up in their visual record by the mid-1500s.