Double-chambered Pot

Dateca 1470-1532

MediumCeramic, polychrome

Dimensions5 3/4 x 7 1/4 inches (14.6 x 18.4 cm)

CultureChimu-Inca (Peru)

PeriodLate Horizon

ClassificationsCeramics

Credit LineTransfer from the Sociology - Anthropology Department. Spring 1956.

Terms

Perú
Ceramics
Ceramic
Polychrome
Animals
Foxes
Cats
Jaguars
Chimu-Inca

Object number56.207

Label CopyThis double-chambered Chimú-Inca redware pot has a bridge connecting the spouts and conjoined vessel bodies. It is decorated with bands of raised-relief animals (felines or foxes?) painted in orange and brown on a white ground, above a red band and below a brown band with white circles. The spouts are tan; one rim has white and brown spots on a red ground; the bridge is decorated with brown spots and lines on a buff ground.

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