Pot

27016

From: Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 27016
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I
Culture Area Andean
Section American
Materials Ceramic | Clay
Technique Painted
Iconography Frog
Description

Painted with frogs in three colors.

Wide mouthed vessel with a globular body, cylindrical collar, outward sloping rim, no handles, and a flat base. The vessel has a triangular protrusion on either side of the neck. The vessel is painted with a band of stylized frogs around the shoulder in white, black, peach, and purple. There is a band of concentric semi-circles around the rim in white and black. There appears to be a burnished finish on the exterior and a smoothed finish on the interior. The vessel was likely fired in an oxidizing atmosphere as the ceramic paste is orange in color. Fireclouding is present on the body. There are striations on the interior surface from smoothing tool. The catalogue number is written on the bottom of the base and black ink on the bottom of the base reads: "2643."

Height 22.1 cm
Thickness 0.77 cm
Outside Diameter 21.4 cm
Credit Line William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897

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