Cleveland Museum of Art
Vessel with Stirrup Spout
- Date
- 1900s (thermoluminescence date)
- Medium
- earthenware
- Culture
- Peru, likely modern, inspired by the Cupisnique style
- Department
- Art of the Americas
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
The stirrup spout first appeared on the North Coast in the ceramics of the Cupisnique culture, a Chavín contemporary, and remained an important North Coast spout form until the time of the Spanish conquest. It probably had symbolic meaning, now lost.
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