Bottle

Museum number:
4-4683
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.81
Description:
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.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Grave 3, Ocucaje Site F, Ica Valley
Verbatim coll. place:
Ocucaje, Site F: Grave 3
Culture or time period:
Early Intermediate Period 4, ancient Peru and Nazca culture (100 BC–800 AD)
Collector:
Max Uhle
Materials:
Ceramic (material)
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Bottles
Accession date:
July 24, 1903
Department:
Ancient Peru
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with 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.

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