Vessel with Stirrup Spout (1900s (thermoluminescence date)): Art, History and Details

Vessel with Stirrup Spout (1900s (thermoluminescence date)) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

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.

Object facts

• Title: Vessel with Stirrup Spout
• Date: 1900s (thermoluminescence date)
• Culture: Peru, likely modern, inspired by the Cupisnique style
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: earthenware
• Dimensions: Overall: 22.8 x 17.2 cm (9 x 6 3/4 in.)
• Collection: AA - Andes
• Department: Art of the Americas
• Accession number: 1968.192

Collection credit

Purchase, Bequest of Helen Humphreys

Further reading listed by the museum

• The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
• The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
• Cleveland Museum of Art, and Jenifer Neils. The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982.

View the collection record

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