Bottle w/ applied quadruped decoration
- Title:
- Bottle w/ applied quadruped decoration
- Collection:
- Selections from the Cornell Anthropology Collections
- Donor:
- J.B. Steere
- Date:
- ca. 1450 AD, Late Horizon
- Site:
- Peru
- Location:
- Peru
- Country:
- Peru
- ID Number:
- Anthr1877_003_0006_01
- Old Catalog Number:
- 877.3.6
- File Name:
- Anthr1877_003_0006_01.jpg
- Culture:
- Late Chimu
Inca - Style/Period:
- Chimú
Late Horizon
Inca - Work Type:
- bottles
- Materials/Techniques:
- ceramic (material)
- Subject:
- chimu pottery
- Measurement:
- 18.4 x 16 (body) x 5.5 (rim) x 0.4 (centimeters, height x diameter x diameter x thickness)
- Description:
- Medium amount of white temper, gray grit, and a few pebbles
Color: 7.5 YR 3/0 dark gray
burnished with slight luster
hand-made
Hardness: 4(Moh)
Flat base, ovoid body, conical neck, externally thickened and slightly rounded rim
applied raised-relief animal head on upper body of vessel, animal body with four legs and a tail around neck. - Bibliography:
- Menzel, Dorothy. 1977. The archaeology of ancient Peru and the work of Max Uhle. Berkeley: R.H. Lowie Museum of Anthropology, University of California, p. 96. Kroeber, A. L., and Max Uhle. 1925. The Uhle pottery collections from Moche and The Uhle pottery collections from Supe. Berkeley: University of California Press, Pl. 21.
- Archival Collection:
- Precolumbian Peruvian textiles and ceramics
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
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