vessel
- Museum number
- Am1941,04.65
- Description
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Double-spout-and-bridge whistling bottle with narrow tapering spout, chamber with pronounced equator and ring base. Surmounting chamber is seated female in double-pointed headdress and necklace, bearing a child on mat, on her lap. Horizontal mould set for chamber; figure made in vertical two-part mould with limbs modelled and applied; child in one-part mould(?); whistle modelled. Upper surface is polished. Black.
- Production date
- 900-1430
- Dimensions
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Height: 25.50 centimetres
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Width: 19 centimetres
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Depth: 19 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
- Am1941,04.65
