Stirrup Vessel with Kneeling Figure | Yale University Art Gallery

A.D. 200–500

Medium: Ceramic with pigment
Dimensions: 10 3/8 × 8 × 5 7/8 in. (26.35 × 20.32 × 14.96 cm)
Credit Line: Bequest of Erika and Thomas Leland Hughes, B.A. 1945, LL.B. 1949
Accession Number: 2014.121.85
Geography: Central Andes, Peru
Culture: Central Andes, North Coast, Moche
Period: Early Intermediate Period
Classification: Containers
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Provenance

ex collection of Dr. Robert Walzer, New York
From the collection of Erika Hughes, Hughes Bequest.

Bibliography

"Ceramica Mochica," http://www.museolarco.org/catalogo/ficha.php?id=2375 (accessed 9/24/2015),

"Vessel in the Form of a Seated Ruler with a Pampas Cat," http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/91562?search_no=86&index=310 (accessed 9/22/2015),

"Vessel in the Form of a Royal Messenger with Ritual Runners," http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/91573?search_no=85&index=307 (accessed 9/22/2015),

Dr. Christopher B. Donnan, Donna McClelland, and Elizabeth P. Benson, Moche Fineline Painting: Its Evolution and its Artists (Los Angeles: Fowler Museum at UCLA, 1999), 41, 102, 203, 205, 213, 224, 234-5, 257, ill

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Additional information

Object/Work type

human figures (visual works), utilitarian objects, vessels

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