Stirrup Bottle
91-26-31
From: Peru
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 91-26-31 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Chimu |
| Provenience | Peru |
| Culture Area | Andean |
| Date Made | ca. 1400 CE |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Iconography | Lobster | Monkey |
| Description | Black burnished ceramic stirrup jar: roughly flat base, globular body with incised parallel increading V-shaped bands containing zigzags on front & back; raised lobster or crayfish on sides; stirrup handle with band of incised birds and small applied seated monkey on one handle; cylindrical mouth. |
| Height | 26.5 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 47 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of Margaret Wasserman Levy, 1991 |
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