Dish painted on the interior with a curled fish. Height 5.8 cm.; diameter 19.6 cm. Painted in four colors. The fish is painted black on the upper half; the lower portion of the body is white with a string of circular purple elements as a decorative filler. The background on which the fish is painted is which with purple stippling. The interior and exterior walls of the vessel are red; the bottom is unslipped.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Grave 23, Ocucaje Site F, Ica Valley
Verbatim coll. place:
Ocucaje: Site F: G23; Ica
Culture or time period:
Early Intermediate Period 3A, ancient Peru
Collector:
Max Uhle
Collection date:
circa 1899
Materials:
Ceramic (material)
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Dishes (vessels for food) and Plates (general, dishes)
Accession date:
July 24, 1903
Department:
Ancient Peru
Comment:
This vessel is now in the collections of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Harvard University (#73874), having formed part of an exchange with this institution in 1908.