Cup
26710
From: Peru | Pachacamac | Pachacamac Temple
Curatorial Section: American
Object Number | 26710 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Epigonal |
Provenience | Peru | Pachacamac | Pachacamac Temple |
Culture Area | Andean |
Locus | tomb |
Date Made | 600-1000 |
Section | American |
Materials | Ceramic | Clay | Pigment |
Technique | Polychrome |
Iconography | Quadruped |
Description | Polychrome pottery; red , black, white, blue, and yellow. Slightly flaring. painted with a quadruped Cup or 'qero' with a cylindrical body, no neck/collar, rounded rim, no handles, and a flat base. No molded/modeled additions. The vessel is painted with a detailed design repeated twice around the body. The painted design includes a double headed (?) animal and a face at the center painted in white, black, red, orange, and green?. There appears to be a burnished finish on the exterior and a burnished finish on the interior. The vessel was likely fired in an oxidizing atmosphere as the ceramic paste is orange in color. The catalogue number is written on the bottom of the base and black ink on the bottom of the base reads: "3200." |
Height | 9.3 cm |
Thickness | 0.53 cm |
Outside Diameter | 9.1 cm |
Credit Line | William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897 |
Other Number | 3200 - Field No SF |
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