Blackware fish bottle
- Title:
- Blackware fish bottle
- Collection:
- Selections from the Cornell Anthropology Collections
- Donor:
- Ernst Frank
- Date:
- 750-1375 AD
- Site:
- Lambayeque, Peru (department)
- Location:
- Lambayeque, Peru (department)
- Country:
- Peru
- ID Number:
- Anthr1986_001_0105_01
- Old Catalog Number:
- 986.1.105
- File Name:
- Anthr1986_001_0105_01.jpg
- Culture:
- Sicani
Lambayeque - Style/Period:
- Lambayeque
Late Intermediate Period
Middle Horizon - Work Type:
- pottery (object genre)
bottles
molding (forming) - Materials/Techniques:
- ceramic (material)
- Subject:
- zoomorphic
fish - Measurement:
- 18 (centimeters, length)
- Description:
- Blackware bottle in the form of a fish, with an low conical foot, and a high tapering vertical spout. The fish in molded and incised decoration marks the gills and tail fins. Diagnostic Sican-type collar at the base of the spout, though similar shaped vessels are known from the Chimu and Inca tradition.
- Bibliography:
- Catalogue of the Ernst Frank Collection in the Cornell University Library
Mason, 1961, plate 35, wrongly identified as Inca. - Archival Collection:
- Precolumbian Peruvian textiles and ceramics
- Format:
- Image
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