Bird-spout whistling vessel

Artist Unidentified artist

Date1100–400 BCE

MediumEarthenware

Dimensions7 1/2 × 6 5/16 × 3 1/8 inches (19 × 16 × 8 cm)

CultureChorrera (Ecuador)

ClassificationsCeramics

Credit LineGift of Thomas Carroll, PhD 1951

Terms

Ecuador
Ceramics
Chorrera
Earthenware
Animals
Birds

Object number2006.070.031

Label CopyThis Chorrera double-spouted ceramic vessel is U-shaped, with a bird on the blind spout and a narrow curving bridge handle. The surface is treated with burnished red slip. Whistle holes are present on the bird finial, and sound would have been made either when air or water moved form one chamber of the vessel to the other.

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