Black stirrup spout pottery vessel. [MOBB [OPS move] 22/03/2016]

Collection type: Object
Description: Black stirrup spout pottery vessel. [MOBB [OPS move] 22/03/2016]
Long description: Black stirrup spout pottery vessel: two modelled fish-heads at the base of the stirrup and a modelled monkey at the base of the spout which projects vertically from the centre of the arch.
Geographical reference: Peru
Latin America and the Caribbean > South America > Peru; La Libertad Region Trujillo Province
Person: Field collector J.H. Spottiswoode; Field collector John Roderick Charles Herbert-Spottiswoode; PRM source J.H. Spottiswoode; PRM source John Roderick Charles Herbert-Spottiswoode; PRM source British Museum
Date / Period: Date made: 1000-1476 Archaeological period: Chimu
Date collected: By 1921
Acquisition information: Donated: 1921
Materials and processes: Material Pottery, Process Moulded, Process Burnished
Dimensions: Width: max 135 mm, Diameter 24 mm spout, Height 230 mm, Diameter: max 150 mm, Weight 600 g
Object numbers: Accession number: 1921.78.42
Research and responses: Related Documents File - Letter from Joyce, British Museum, to Balfour, dated 31 August 1921: 'The pots are the gift of J.H. Spottiswoode ... There is no information accompanying them, but it is evident that the Great majority come from the Truxillo region & belong to the late Chimu period. ...' Also condition reports and other research information gathered by LMC, undated. [See file for full texts.] [MOB 20/11/2001]
Purchased by J.H. Spottiswoode in the Pacasmayo region [BM correspondence]
Associated publications: Collection published in Mowat, Linda. 1988. `The Chimu Potter: Mass-Producer or Master Craftsman?' MEG Newsletter 22:1-33.

Search terms: Pottery, Vessel, Figure, Fish Figure, Animal Figure

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