Double spout and bridge vessel with modelled bird figure.

Collection type: Object
Description: Double spout and bridge vessel with modelled bird figure.
Long description: Cuboid vessel surmounted by a tapering spout, bridge and modelled bird figure. The whistling holes are behind the bird's head. The sides of the cube are decorated with press moulded panels featuring birds. Probably slab built, the bird figure moulded. [LM 1986]
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 Fire-Hardened, Process Moulded, Process Burnished
Dimensions: Length: max 157 mm, Width 570 mm, Diameter 17 mm spout, Height: max 162 mm, Weight 570 g
Object numbers: Accession number: 1921.78.76
Research and responses: 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. Purchased by J.H.

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