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Large pitcher with applied and incised decoration.
Large pitcher with applied and incised decoration.
Object Number 990-6-30/11535
Display Title Large pitcher with applied and incised decoration.
Descriptions
Object Description Large pitcher with applied and incised decoration. neck in the form of a seated figure with round medallions on chest, shoulders and hands. medallions also are around figure. next to figure is a bird on one side and a camelid on the other w/ broken head and a vessel in front. brown glazed pottery.
Inventory Description Ceramic jar, brown glazed, human figure and zoomorphs, adornos, cracked pedestal
Classification
  • Jar
Department Ethnographic
Date late 19th century
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
South America / Peru
Materials Ceramic
Dimensions Overall: 33 x 18 x 16.1 cm (13 x 7 1/16 x 6 5/16 in.)
Quantity 2
Label on object 990-6-30/11535
Provenance
Collector Eliza Thurston Butts (ca. 1890)
Donor Ellen Frothingham Dunnell (June 12. 1990)

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