Stirrup Bottle

91-26-31

From: Peru

Curatorial Section: American

Object Number 91-26-31
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Chimu
Provenience Peru
Culture Area Andean
Date Made ca. 1400 CE
Section American
Materials Ceramic
Iconography Lobster | Monkey
Description

Black burnished ceramic stirrup jar: roughly flat base, globular body with incised parallel increading V-shaped bands containing zigzags on front & back; raised lobster or crayfish on sides; stirrup handle with band of incised birds and small applied seated monkey on one handle; cylindrical mouth.

Height 26.5 cm
Outside Diameter 47 cm
Credit Line Gift of Margaret Wasserman Levy, 1991

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