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Art of the Ancient Americas
Maker: Unknown
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
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.