Cup
26791
From: Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 26791 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I |
| Culture Area | Andean |
| Date Made | 600-1000 |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Ceramic | Clay | Pigment |
| Technique | Painted |
| Description | Painted clay Tall, Flaring Cup or 'qero' with a flaring body, no neck/collar, rounded rim, no handles, and a flat base. No molded/modeled additions. The vessel is painted with a curvilinear design in white, black, yellow, orange/red. 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 interior There are striations on the interior surface from a tool. The catalogue number is written on the bottom of the base and black ink on the bottom of the base reads: "817." |
| Height | 18 cm |
| Thickness | 0.64 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 15 cm |
| Credit Line | William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897 |
| Other Number | 817 - Field No SF |
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