vessel
- Museum number
- Am1941,04.57
- Description
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Stirrup spout bottle with square-profiled stirrup and short spout; chamber with pronounced equator and pointed top; flat base. Upper surface of chamber features four standing frontal anthropomorphic figures in feathered headdresses and with up-held hands; adjacent are staff-like motifs and spirals (shells?). Coarsely-stippled background. Broken lugs at stirrup base. Vertical mould seams down sides, including stirrup spout; cracking down chamber sides along seams. Lower chamber and stirrup are polished. Black; grey at base.
- Production date
- 900-1430
- Dimensions
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Height: 20.80 centimetres
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Width: 15.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Register addition "Chimu".
Register 1941:
Late Chimu style, Peru.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1941
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1941,04.57
