Double spout bottle

Museum number:
4-4735
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Accession number:
Acc.81
Description:
Double spout bottle painted with ten humming birds sitting on a tree. Height 15.0 cm.; maximum body diameter 13.2 cm. Painted in six colors. The birds are perched on an orange colored tree on a white background. They have grey heads, tail feathers, and wings, orange pouches, black wings, and a purple body. The spouts are dark red as is a band separating the orange body from the design area. The vessel is smooth and well burnished however some of the black outlining has flaked off. There are some smudges of red paint on the white ground between the spouts. The spouts are smooth but broken off. Two (broken) spouts connected by handle. Illustrated by Kroeber and Strong, 1924, Plate 25g; and Proulx, 1968, Plate l3b.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Grave 11a, Ocucaje Site F, Ica Valley
Verbatim coll. place:
Ocucaje, Site F: Grave 11
Culture or time period:
Early Intermediate Period 3C, 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
Loans:
S1945-1946 #3: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (dates unknown)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 6 titled Double spout bottle, accession number 4-4735, described as Double spout bottle painted with ten humming birds sitting on a tree. Height 15.0 cm.; maximum body diameter 13.2 cm. Painted in six colors. The birds are perched on an orange colored tree on a white background. They have grey heads, tail feathers, and wings, orange pouches, black wings, and a purple body. The spouts are dark red as is a band separating the orange body from the design area. The vessel is smooth and well burnished however some of the black outlining has flaked off. There are some smudges of red paint on the white ground between the spouts. The spouts are smooth but broken off. Two (broken) spouts connected by handle. Illustrated by Kroeber and Strong, 1924, Plate 25g; and Proulx, 1968, Plate l3b.Hearst Museum object 2 of 6 titled Double spout bottle, accession number 4-4735, described as Double spout bottle painted with ten humming birds sitting on a tree. Height 15.0 cm.; maximum body diameter 13.2 cm. Painted in six colors. The birds are perched on an orange colored tree on a white background. They have grey heads, tail feathers, and wings, orange pouches, black wings, and a purple body. The spouts are dark red as is a band separating the orange body from the design area. The vessel is smooth and well burnished however some of the black outlining has flaked off. There are some smudges of red paint on the white ground between the spouts. The spouts are smooth but broken off. Two (broken) spouts connected by handle. Illustrated by Kroeber and Strong, 1924, Plate 25g; and Proulx, 1968, Plate l3b.Hearst Museum object 3 of 6 titled Double spout bottle, accession number 4-4735, described as Double spout bottle painted with ten humming birds sitting on a tree. Height 15.0 cm.; maximum body diameter 13.2 cm. Painted in six colors. The birds are perched on an orange colored tree on a white background. They have grey heads, tail feathers, and wings, orange pouches, black wings, and a purple body. The spouts are dark red as is a band separating the orange body from the design area. The vessel is smooth and well burnished however some of the black outlining has flaked off. There are some smudges of red paint on the white ground between the spouts. The spouts are smooth but broken off. Two (broken) spouts connected by handle. Illustrated by Kroeber and Strong, 1924, Plate 25g; and Proulx, 1968, Plate l3b.Hearst Museum object 4 of 6 titled Double spout bottle, accession number 4-4735, described as Double spout bottle painted with ten humming birds sitting on a tree. Height 15.0 cm.; maximum body diameter 13.2 cm. Painted in six colors. The birds are perched on an orange colored tree on a white background. They have grey heads, tail feathers, and wings, orange pouches, black wings, and a purple body. The spouts are dark red as is a band separating the orange body from the design area. The vessel is smooth and well burnished however some of the black outlining has flaked off. There are some smudges of red paint on the white ground between the spouts. The spouts are smooth but broken off. Two (broken) spouts connected by handle. Illustrated by Kroeber and Strong, 1924, Plate 25g; and Proulx, 1968, Plate l3b.Hearst Museum object 5 of 6 titled Double spout bottle, accession number 4-4735, described as Double spout bottle painted with ten humming birds sitting on a tree. Height 15.0 cm.; maximum body diameter 13.2 cm. Painted in six colors. The birds are perched on an orange colored tree on a white background. They have grey heads, tail feathers, and wings, orange pouches, black wings, and a purple body. The spouts are dark red as is a band separating the orange body from the design area. The vessel is smooth and well burnished however some of the black outlining has flaked off. There are some smudges of red paint on the white ground between the spouts. The spouts are smooth but broken off. Two (broken) spouts connected by handle. Illustrated by Kroeber and Strong, 1924, Plate 25g; and Proulx, 1968, Plate l3b.Hearst Museum object 6 of 6 titled Double spout bottle, accession number 4-4735, described as Double spout bottle painted with ten humming birds sitting on a tree. Height 15.0 cm.; maximum body diameter 13.2 cm. Painted in six colors. The birds are perched on an orange colored tree on a white background. They have grey heads, tail feathers, and wings, orange pouches, black wings, and a purple body. The spouts are dark red as is a band separating the orange body from the design area. The vessel is smooth and well burnished however some of the black outlining has flaked off. There are some smudges of red paint on the white ground between the spouts. The spouts are smooth but broken off. Two (broken) spouts connected by handle. Illustrated by Kroeber and Strong, 1924, Plate 25g; and Proulx, 1968, Plate l3b.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Double spout bottle, accession number 4-4735, described as Double spout bottle painted with ten humming birds sitting on a tree. Height 15.0 cm.; maximum body diameter 13.2 cm. Painted in six colors. The birds are perched on an orange colored tree on a white background. They have grey heads, tail feathers, and wings, orange pouches, black wings, and a purple body. The spouts are dark red as is a band separating the orange body from the design area. The vessel is smooth and well burnished however some of the black outlining has flaked off. There are some smudges of red paint on the white ground between the spouts. The spouts are smooth but broken off. Two (broken) spouts connected by handle. Illustrated by Kroeber and Strong, 1924, Plate 25g; and Proulx, 1968, Plate l3b.

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