Dish

Museum number:
4-4760
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Accession number:
Acc.81
Description:
Dish painted with two fruits with thick stems. Height 6.8 cm.; diameter 16.4 cm. Painted in five colors. The fruits are orange and violet, outlined in black, on a white ground. The interior and exterior walls are dark red. The bottom is unslipped. The interior walls are deeply cut with burnishing lines in contrast to the bottom which is quite smooth. The vessel was broken in antiquity and was mended by tying through one pair of drilled holes near' the rim. Some of the very large temper (2.5 mm.) can be seen in the cracks. Illustrated by Kroeber, 1956, Figure 3b, p. 360, and Figure 4a, p. 361.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Grave 17, Ocucaje Site F, Ica Valley
Verbatim coll. place:
Ocucaje, Site F: Grave 17
Culture or time period:
Early Intermediate Period 4, ancient Peru
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 4-4760, described as Dish painted with two fruits with thick stems. Height 6.8 cm.; diameter 16.4 cm. Painted in five colors. The fruits are orange and violet, outlined in black, on a white ground. The interior and exterior walls are dark red. The bottom is unslipped. The interior walls are deeply cut with burnishing lines in contrast to the bottom which is quite smooth. The vessel was broken in antiquity and was mended by tying through one pair of drilled holes near' the rim. Some of the very large temper (2.5 mm.) can be seen in the cracks. Illustrated by Kroeber, 1956, Figure 3b, p. 360, and Figure 4a, p. 361.

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