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Vessel with Stirrup Spout

1900s (thermoluminescence date)
earthenware
Overall: 22.8 x 17.2 cm (9 x 6 3/4 in.)
Purchase, Bequest of Helen Humphreys 1968.192
Location: not on view
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Description

The stirrup spout first appeared on the North Coast in the ceramics of the Cupisnique culture, a Chavín contemporary, and remained an important North Coast spout form until the time of the Spanish conquest. It probably had symbolic meaning, now lost.
Vessel with Stirrup Spout

Vessel with Stirrup Spout

1900s (thermoluminescence date)

Peru, likely modern, inspired by the Cupisnique style

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