Vase

43507

From: Peru | Lambayeque

Curatorial Section: American

Object Number 43507
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Chimu
Provenience Peru | Lambayeque
Culture Area Andean
Period Late Chimu
Section American
Materials Ceramic
Iconography Animal
Description

Fruit-shaped black clay vase. Flattened grooves radiating from center forming, were it not for neck and base, a ten-pointed star; base ornamented with designs incised and in relief, neck bulging, grooved, compressed, with flaring lip; two birds on body and two animals on neck.

Credit Line Gift of Randolph Clay, 1912

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