Plate
32469
Location: On Display in the Ancient Food & Flavor
From: Peru | Pachacamac
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 32469 |
| Current Location | Ancient Food & Flavor - On Display |
| Culture | Inca |
| Provenience | Peru | Pachacamac |
| Culture Area | Andean |
| Locus | Found in attempted excavation of one of the houses |
| Date Made | 1460-1532 CE |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Ceramic | Clay |
| Technique | Painted |
| Iconography | Bird Head | Dolphin |
| Description | Birds head handle, interior painted with two dolphins Plate with a flaring body, no neck/collar, rounded rim, no handles, and a flattened base. There is a molded bird head with long neck is attached to one side of the rim and is painted with eyes and a white beak. The interior of the bowl is painted with two catfish(?) swimming in a circle with white bodies and black spots. There appears to be a burnished finish on the exterior. The vessel was likely fired in an oxidizing atmosphere as the ceramic paste is orange in color. Fireclouding is present on the body. The catalogue number is written in black ink. Black ink on the bottom of the base reads: "3224c." |
| Height | 2.8 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 10.5 cm |
| Credit Line | William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897 |
| Other Number | 3224C - Field No SF |
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