Stirrup-spout portrait vessel
Stirrup-spout portrait vessel
Stirrup-spout portrait vessel
Stirrup-spout portrait vessel
Stirrup-spout portrait vessel
Stirrup-spout portrait vessel
Stirrup-spout portrait vessel
Stirrup-spout portrait vessel
Stirrup-spout portrait vessel
Stirrup-spout portrait vessel
Stirrup-spout portrait vessel
Stirrup-spout portrait vessel
Stirrup-spout portrait vessel
Stirrup-spout portrait vessel
Stirrup-spout portrait vessel
Stirrup-spout portrait vessel

On view

Art of the Ancient Americas

Stirrup-spout portrait vessel,

200–500 CE

Mochica
Early Intermediate Period
2016-1313

Information

Title
Stirrup-spout portrait vessel
Dates

200–500 CE

Medium
Ceramic with red and cream slips
Dimensions
14.5 × 9.1 × 13 cm (5 11/16 × 3 9/16 × 5 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Gillett G. Griffin
Object Number
2016-1313
Place Made

South America, Peru, North coast

Culture
Mochica
Period
Early Intermediate period
Type
ceramics, vessels (containers)
Materials
ceramic
Subject
men, faces

[Rassiga Gallery, owned and operated by Everett Rassiga (1921-2003)]; purchased on April 18 1973 [1], by Gillett G. Griffin (1928-2016), Princeton, NJ [2]; bequest to the Princeton University Art Museum, 2016. [1] According to stylistic inference, dated invoice and gallery sticker on object. [2] According to multiple reference in dated slides from 1973 - 1977 in the Griffin archive.

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