Stirrup Vessel with Kneeling Figure

A.D. 200–500

Ceramic with pigment

26.35 × 20.32 × 14.96 cm (10 3/8 × 8 × 5 7/8 in.)

Bequest of Erika and Thomas Leland Hughes, B.A. 1945, LL.B. 1949

2014.121.85

Geography:

Central Andes, Peru

Status:

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center

Culture:

Central Andes, North Coast, Moche

Period:

Early Intermediate Period

Classification:

Containers - Ceramics

Provenance:

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

Bibliography:

“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).

“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).

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

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.

Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.