Lucuma Effigy Bottle with Monkey

Dateca. 1470-1532

MediumBlackware

Dimensions5 3/4 x 5 inches (14.6 x 12.7 cm)

CultureChimu-Inca (Peru)

PeriodLate Horizon

ClassificationsCeramics

Credit LineTransferred from the Department of Sociology and Anthropology

Terms

Perú
Ceramics
Chimu
Blackware
Animals
Monkeys
Fruit

Object number56.234

Label CopyThis burnished blackware pottery vessel, in the shape of a lucuma fruit, has a tall and narrow spout with an outflaring ring. The figure of a monkey sits with rear haunches on the vessel's shoulder; the front arms grasp the spout, with the monkey's body forming a handle.

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