Stirrup-spouted vessel
- Title:
- Stirrup-spouted vessel
- Collection:
- Selections from the Cornell Anthropology Collections
- Donor:
- Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hodge, Trumansburg, N.Y.
Given to the Hodge's in 1944 by Fortunato Hoyle, an agent for cinchona bark
- Date:
- 1000-1450 AD
- Site:
- Peru (nation)
Andes (mountain system) - Location:
- Peru (nation)
Andes (mountain system) - Country:
- Peru
- ID Number:
- Anthr1982_003_0024_01
- Old Catalog Number:
- 982.3.24
- File Name:
- Anthr1982_003_0024_01.jpg
- Culture:
- Chimu
- Style/Period:
- Chimú
Late Intermediate Period - Work Type:
- bottles
pottery (object genre) - Materials/Techniques:
- ceramic (material)
- Subject:
- vegetables
peppers - Measurement:
- 17 x 7.8 (body) x 2.2 (rim) x 0.4 (wall) (centimeters, height x diameter x diameter x thickness)
- Description:
- This stirrup-spouted vessel has a bellshaped body with capsicum peppers modeled on each side. The bell-shaped portion is flat on both top and bottom. The vessel has been fired black and is unevenly smoothed (smoothing marks are visible). The authenticity of this vessel has not been confirmed. Probably a reproduction.
- Bibliography:
- Towle, Margaret A. 1961 The Ethnobotany of Pre-Columbian Peru.Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology No. Wenner-Gren Foundation f!or Anthropological Research. GN 4 V69+ No. 30 1961 (See Plate XII for similar stirrup-spouted vessels with capsicun peppers)
- Archival Collection:
- Precolumbian Peruvian textiles and ceramics
- Format:
- Image
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