Flaring vessel with seven warriors in a landscape
Flaring vessel with seven warriors in a landscape
Flaring vessel with seven warriors in a landscape
Flaring vessel with seven warriors in a landscape
Flaring vessel with seven warriors in a landscape
Flaring vessel with seven warriors in a landscape

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Art of the Ancient Americas

Flaring vessel with seven warriors in a landscape,

450–550 CE

Mochica
Early Intermediate Period (Moche phase IV)
1995-1

Information

Title
Flaring vessel with seven warriors in a landscape
Dates

450–550 CE

Medium
Ceramic with brown and cream slip
Dimensions
h. 24, diam. 34.8 cm (9 7/16 × 13 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase
Object Number
1995-1
Place Made

South America, Peru, North coast

Culture
Early Intermediate period, Mochica
Period
Early Intermediate period
Type
vessels (containers), ceramics
Materials
slip, ceramic
Subject
landscapes (representations), warriors

[Sotheby's Pre-Columbian Art sale in May 17, 1994, Lot 7]. [Throckmorton Fine Art, Inc.]; purchased on December 22, 1994 by the Princeton University Art Museum.

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