Stirrup Vessel with Fish Monster Artist: Unknown

A.D. 300–500

Art of the Ancient Americas

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Medium

Ceramic; red paint on cream base

Dimensions

10 15/16 × 19 1/8 × 4 3/16 in. (27.8 × 48.5 × 10.7 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of the grandchildren of George Hewitt Myers, B.A. 1898, M.F. 1902

Accession Number

2014.27.1

Geography

Central Andes, Peru

Culture

Central Andes, North Coast, Moche

Period

Early Intermediate Period

Classification

Containers

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Provenance
Deposited by George Hewitt Myers at the Yale University Art Gallery in 1939, upon death of George Hewitt Myers, all tangible property was passed on to his wife, Louise Chase Myers, and upon her death, all tangible property was passed to her and George Hewitt Myers’ grandchildren.
Bibliography
  • 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), 46; 66; 112 (comp. ci, fig. 3.12; i.; 4.68
  • Alan R. Sawyer, The Nathan Cummings Collection of Ancient Peruvian Art (formerly Wassermann-San Blás collection) Handbook (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1954), 26, 40 (comp.cit)
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

ceremonial objects, utilitarian objects, vessels

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