Cupisnique Ceramic Bottle with a handle-neck in a stirrup shape. - 30 cm

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Ruth Garrido Vila
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Directed the Ifergan Collection Museum, specialising in Phoenician and Mediterranean archaeology.

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Cupisnique ceramic bottle with a spur-handle spout in a stirrup form, 30 cm high, 19 cm wide and 17 cm deep, dating to 900–200 BCE, in good condition, acquired from an auction house, decorated with a mythic scene of a serpent and a jaguar on the body and a glossy brown engobe glaze.

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Bottle with a handle-neck in an angular stirrup, without lip. The body is decorated with a molded mythic scene depicting the two main animals, the serpent and the jaguar. The serpent's body is decorated with incisions.
Brown terracotta with a glossy dark brown black slip.

Cupisnique Culture, Peru, 900-200 BC

Expert: Bénédicte Hamard
Weight: 1092 g
Condition: broken/repaired with restorations

Provenance
Galerie Michaut
- Vente Boisgirard, Drouot, May 21, 2001, lot 9
Old collection of Mr. Boutmy, France
Ader Nordmann sale on 10/10/2017

Similar work
Larco Museum, Lima, inventory ML040339

Bottle with a handle-neck in an angular stirrup, without lip. The body is decorated with a molded mythic scene depicting the two main animals, the serpent and the jaguar. The serpent's body is decorated with incisions.
Brown terracotta with a glossy dark brown black slip.

Cupisnique Culture, Peru, 900-200 BC

Expert: Bénédicte Hamard
Weight: 1092 g
Condition: broken/repaired with restorations

Provenance
Galerie Michaut
- Vente Boisgirard, Drouot, May 21, 2001, lot 9
Old collection of Mr. Boutmy, France
Ader Nordmann sale on 10/10/2017

Similar work
Larco Museum, Lima, inventory ML040339

Details

Culture
Cupisnique
Century/ Timeframe
900-200 av.JC
Name of object
Bottle with a handle-neck in a stirrup shape.
Acquired from
Auction house
Material
Ceramic
Condition
Good
Height
30 cm
Width
19 cm
Depth
17 cm
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