Pot

32563

From: Peru | Pachacamac

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 32563
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Peru | Pachacamac
Culture Area Andean
Section American
Materials Ceramic | Pigment
Technique Painted
Description

Plain, spherical red, slightly painted in white on bulging neck and around horizontal loop handles. White painting indicated origin in the later period of coast civilization

Cooking pot (olla) with a globular body, cylindrical collar, rounded rim, 2 horizontal strap handles on the body, and a rounded base. No molded/modeled additions. The vessel is painted with white around the handles and neck and red on the body. The vessel appears to have been smoothed with a rotative movement on the exterior. The vessel was likely fired in an oxidizing atmosphere as the ceramic paste is orange, red and buff in color. Fireclouding is present on the bottom and walls. There are regular striations on the neck suggesting a rotative movement. Evidence of usewear includes residue on the interior. There is a black charred material at the interior. The catalogue number is written in black ink. Black ink on the bottom of the vessel reads: "3738."

Height 16 cm
Width 20 cm
Thickness 0.6 cm
Outside Diameter 17 cm
Credit Line William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897
Other Number 3738 - Field No SF

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