Bridge-spout vessel with human head
Bridge-spout vessel with human head
Bridge-spout vessel with human head
Bridge-spout vessel with human head
Bridge-spout vessel with human head
Bridge-spout vessel with human head
Bridge-spout vessel with human head
Bridge-spout vessel with human head
Bridge-spout vessel with human head
Bridge-spout vessel with human head

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Art of the Ancient Americas

Bridge-spout vessel with human head,

500–900 CE

Wari (Atarco B style)
Middle Horizon (Middle Horizon 2B)
2022-18

Information

Title
Bridge-spout vessel with human head
Dates

500–900 CE

Medium
Ceramic with polychrome slip-paint
Dimensions
10.3 × 8.4 × 6.4 cm (4 1/16 × 3 5/16 × 2 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Carl Otto von Kienbusch, Jr. Memorial Collection Fund
Object Number
2022-18
Place Made

South America, Peru, probably South coast

Culture
Wari
Type
ceramics
Materials
slip, ceramic
Subject
spouts, vessels (containers), faces, eagles

Joerg Haeberli, since March 27, 1968; Carolyn Haeberli, since Novemver 13, 2017; purchased by the Princeton University Art Museum, 2022.

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