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Vessel with Stirrup Spout
Vessel with Stirrup Spout
500-200 BC
Peru, North Coast, Cupisnique style
(1200-200 BC)
Earthenware
Overall: 22.8 x 17.2 cm (9 x 6 3/4 in.)
Purchase, Bequest of Helen Humphreys 1968.192
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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.
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