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Stirrup-Spouted Whistling Jar

Stirrup-Spouted Whistling Jar

Unknown

Artist
Unknown (Peruvian, Chimu People)
Title
Stirrup-Spouted Whistling Jar
Date
1000-1400
Medium
Smoked blackware
Dimensions
8 3/4 x 8 1/4 x 3 1/2 in. Overall
Credit
Gift of Margaret E. Monroe in memory of Katherine Harper Mead
Accession No.
1984.1
Classification
Ceramics
Geography
Peru

Related

ca. 1890-1900, acquired in South America by John Cleaveland (New York); by 1979, passed through inheritance to Margaret E. Monroe (Madison, WI); March 1984, gifted to the Elvehjem Museum of Art [now called Chazen Museum of Art]

  • Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Bulletin 1983-1984." Madison: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1984. p. 54

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