Blackware monkey bottle
- Title:
- Blackware monkey bottle
- 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_0109_01
- Old Catalog Number:
- 986.1.109
- File Name:
- Anthr1986_001_0109_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:
- monkeys (animals)
infants - Measurement:
- 19 (centimeters, height)
- Description:
- Blackware bottle with high tapering neck (support Lambayeque, rather than Chimu identification), and a flat base. Handle is off to side, rather then in line with the monkey's head, probably due to the placement of a molded monkey infant on the back of the vessel. A raised band marks the point of inflection of the vessel's body. Head of monkey and infant are in modeled in the round, while the limbs of the monkey are modeled in low-relief.
- 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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