Blackware bird sitrrup-spout bottle
- Title:
- Blackware bird sitrrup-spout bottle
- Collection:
- Selections from the Cornell Anthropology Collections
- Donor:
- Ernst Frank
- Date:
- 1476-1534 CE
- Country:
- Peru
- ID Number:
- Anthr1986_001_0120_01
- Old Catalog Number:
- 986.1.120
- File Name:
- Anthr1986_001_0120_01.jpg
- Culture:
- Inca
- Style/Period:
- Late Horizon
Inca - Work Type:
- pottery (object genre)
molding (forming)
bottles - Materials/Techniques:
- ceramic (material)
- Subject:
- birds
bridge spouts
zoomorphic - Measurement:
- 18.3 x 9.9 (centimeters, height x diameter)
- Description:
- Spherical blackware bottle with stirrup/bridge-handle spout. An effigy of a bird dits atop the spherical body of the bottle, and from its back emerges one end of the sirrup spout, the other connecting to the upper shoulder of the essel.
- Bibliography:
- Catalogue of the Ernst Frank Collection in the Cornell University Library Rare Book and Manuscripts Collection
- Archival Collection:
- Precolumbian Peruvian textiles and ceramics
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
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