Dish

Museum number:
4-4688
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.81
Description:
Dish painted with two fruits with thick stems. Height 9.8 cm.; diameter 20.2 cm. Painted in three, possibly four colors. One of the fruits is orange and the other is too deteriorated to tell the color. They are painted on a white ground. The interior walls are light red with blotchy areas indicating some sort of chemical change in the slip during firing. The upper half of the exterior is slipped red. Illustrated by Kroeber, 1956, Figure 4b, p. 361, and Figure 5c, p. 371.
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:
Dishes (vessels for food)
Accession date:
July 24, 1903
Department:
Ancient Peru
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Dish, accession number 4-4688, described as Dish painted with two fruits with thick stems. Height 9.8 cm.; diameter 20.2 cm. Painted in three, possibly four colors. One of the fruits is orange and the other is too deteriorated to tell the color. They are painted on a white ground. The interior walls are light red with blotchy areas indicating some sort of chemical change in the slip during firing. The upper half of the exterior is slipped red. Illustrated by Kroeber, 1956, Figure 4b, p. 361, and Figure 5c, p. 371.

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