Blackware face/neck jar
- Title:
- Blackware face/neck jar
- Collection:
- Selections from the Cornell Anthropology Collections
- Donor:
- Ernst Frank
- Date:
- 750-1375 AD
- Site:
- Lambayeque, Peru (department)
- Location:
- Lambayeque, Peru (department)
- Country:
- Peru
- ID Number:
- Anthr1986_001_0099_01
- Old Catalog Number:
- 986.1.99
- File Name:
- Anthr1986_001_0099_01.jpg
- Culture:
- Sicani
Lambayeque - Style/Period:
- Lambayeque
Late Intermediate Period
Middle Horizon - Work Type:
- pottery (object genre)
bottles
molding (forming) - Materials/Techniques:
- ceramic (material)
- Subject:
- faces
human figures (visual works)
birds
anthropomorphic
pilgrim bottles
wave scrolls
mandalas - Measurement:
- 19.9 x 12.9 (centimeters, height x width)
- Description:
- Conical pedestal base and flared conical spout. General shape that of "pilgrim bottle". Molded cruciform incised design surrounded by a circle of wave motifs on front. At the rear is a cricle of waves from which the handle arose, which is broken off. On the front within the circle of waves is a geometric mandala-like design. There is an atypical face on the spout. There are unincised birds below & to either side of this face. The presence of the same motif as in neckband of 98 & 106 is best argument for Lambayeque attribution. Sican diagnostics are absent from this vessel, although the strap handle might have incorporated such an element. (Handles has since been located and reattached - it is a simple double strap handle) Face is of uncommon execution, with what appear to be low relief outlines or tiny appliques delineating the parts of the face. (Possibly not authentic, or Chimu?)
- Bibliography:
- Catalogue of the Ernst Frank Collection in the Cornell University Library
- Archival Collection:
- Precolumbian Peruvian textiles and ceramics
- Format:
- Image
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