Blackware jug with handle
- Title:
- Blackware jug with handle
- 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_0107_01
- Old Catalog Number:
- 986.1.107
- File Name:
- Anthr1986_001_0107_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:
- human figures (visual works)
felidae - Measurement:
- 19.8 x 19.1 (centimeters, diameter x height)
- Description:
- Globular blackware jar with short conical neck/spout, and a small strap handle from neck to upper shoulder. Base & shoulders are decorated with reliefs reminiscent of Chimu embossed silver discs & the Huaca del Dragon at Chan Chan. Motifs are very difficult to discern due to a proliferation of busy, punctate decoration, but in two panels the central figure is portrayed from the shoulders frontally. He wears a necklace, earspools, and a headdress made up of two upside down, cat-like creatures. There are two more cats (?) and two small humanoid figures completing the panel. To either side is a Wari style messenger figure seen in profile. These wear cat ? headdresses and carry a staff in one hand & a highly stylized figure in the other. There is a bird above and behind one shoulder of each messenger. The same designs are repeated at the base but are eroded, indicating use before burial that resulted in wear.
- Bibliography:
- Catalogue of the Ernst Frank Collection in the Cornell University Library
- Archival Collection:
- Precolumbian Peruvian textiles and ceramics
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
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