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Start Over Object class Vessels (containers) Culture or time period Relative chronology of Peruvian Early Intermediate Period Accession number Acc.81
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bottle, accession number 4-4683, described as Double spout bottle decorated with multicolored segmented circles. Height 11.2 cm.; diameter 9.5 cm. Painted in seven colors. The circles are white, flesh, purple, grey and brown on an orange background. The spouts and the bottom are black. The vessel is fragmentary and much of the pigment is flaked off. The vessel has a very peculiar shape and appears almost square. The sides have a slight concavity. Illustrated by Kroeber and Strong, 1924, Plate 28e; and Kroeber, 1956, Plate 35b.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bottle, accession number 4-4678, described as Miniature bottle with small modeled face on one of the spouts and body of the vessel decorated with white dots. Height 5.6 cm.; diameter 4.5 cm. Painted in three colors. The spouts are black; the white dots are on a purple ground and the bottom is unslipped. Illustrated by Kroeber, 1956, Plate 34d.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bottle, accession number 4-4635, described as Double spout bottle 'painted with two mythical spotted cats. Height 15.8 cm.; diameter (max.) 13.6 cm. Painted in five colors. The cat's face is purple, his body grey with black spots; the mouth mask is orange, and the background white. The orange pigment seems to be the most unstable and has chipped off on two of the fruits. Burnishing lines are most noticeable on the surface. Illustrated by Kroeber and Strong, 1924, Plate 25f, and Uhle, 1913, Figure 12:12.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bottle, accession number 4-4645, described as Double spout bottle decorated with an Anthropomorphic mythical being. Height 18.6 em.) Maximum diameter 15.5 em. Painted in 9' colors. Body parts are purple, the face orange, mouth and tongue light grey, mouth mask white, put- lines black, upper cloak band violet, and panel above head in rear, flesh. The background is dark red. The vessel is fine ly burnished except for the spouts where the paint is crackled. The creatures thumb nails are incised where they cross the white dividing line on the bottom. Outlining is careless in places (e.g. above the right eye) and appears to have been done after the design had been painted. Illustrated by Kroeber and Strong, 1924, Plate 25c; Proulx, 1968, Plate 6a; Seler, 1923, Figure 72; Uhle, 1906, Figure VII; Uhle, 1913, Figure 12:2; Uhle, 1913, Figure 12:6; Schlesier, 1959, Figure 121.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bottle, accession number 4-4706, described as Double spout bottle painted with three birds, one of which appears to be different from the other two. Height 15.8 cm.; maximum diameter 13.5 cm. Painted in five colors. Two of the birds are red with white spots and the third white with red spots. The wing segments are grey and the feathers are black as are the spouts. The body of one of the birds is orange and it has orange feet. The paint is flaking badly in places. The spouts appear to have a slight skirt around the bases. The bottom of the vessel is quite flat. Illustrated by Kroeber, 1956, Plate 34c.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bottle, accession number 4-4691, described as Double spout bottle painted with two humming birds with their beaks in flowers. Height 17.3 cm.; diameter (maximum) 13.7 cm. Painted in five colors. The body of the vessel except the bottom is painted white. The spouts are black with a crackled finish. The birds are outlined in black and have black feathers; upper body parts and tail feathers, are grey, and pouches are orange. The lower part of the bodies are red. The spouts are quite lumpy, and the walls are thick and heavy. The spouts are joined to the body with a distinct ridge. There are fire clouds on the bottom. Illustrated by Kroeber and Strong, 1924, Plate 25e; and Uhle, 1903, p. 780.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bowl, accession number 4-4695, described as Flaring bowl decorated with multi,colored doughnut-shaped elements Which also cover the bottom. Height 4.6 cm.;.diameter 11.6 cm. Painted in 5 colors. the doughnut elements are dark red, purple, grey and white on a black background. The rim band is purple and the interior dark red. Illustrated by Kroeber, 1956, Plate 33a.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bowl, accession number 4-4631, described as Deep bottom bowl decorated with beet-shaped fruits having long white stems. Height 11.0 cm.; diameter 20.8 cm. (estimate). Painted in five colors. The fruits are painted in two colors, half orange and half purple; stems are white and background black. The design only covers two thirds of the wall, and the remainder of the vessel including the interior is dark red. This vessel is in very fragmentary condition and the paste very crumbly. Much of the paint is flaking off. Mended, incomplete.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bowl, accession number 4-4634a, described as This vessel is listed in Uhle's catalog as a monochrome red bowl. It is missing from the collection and must be assumed lost before it reached the museum.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bowl, accession number 4-4636, described as Small flaring bowl decorated with five multicolored birds. Height 6.7 cm.; diameter 11.1 cm. Painted in 9 colors. Four of the birds appear to be the same type and have white bodies and purple beaks. The rest of the body parts vary in color from bird to bird including orange, flesh, violet, brown, and cream. The fifth bird is white with red spots, grey wing, brown beak, and orange feet. The background is black, rim band purple, and interior red. The exterior bottom is also red. The paint on the lower ⅓ of the vessel has been badly damaged, especially the white. Illustrated by Kroeber and Strong, 1924, Plate 27k.

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