Three vessels ·  Peru, Moche · ID: 3036734

Description

a) double vessel, fired clay, black coating, two spherical corpi, connected by an open worked handle between the two necks, one of them surmounted by a small bird sculpture, small repairs, fine cracks, H: 18,5 cm; L: 25 cm; b) stirrup-spout vessel, spherical body, surmounted by a crayfish, min. dam., small missing parts, slight traces of abrasion, h: 20,5 cm; c) black clay vessel, decorated with anthropo-zoomorphical being and band ornament, min. dam., small missing parts, h: 17,5 cm; all with slight traces of abrasion

Comparing literature

Stone-Miller, Rebecca, Seeing with new eyes, Atlanta 2002, p. 244, ill. 555 Berrin, Kathleen (ed.), The spirit of ancient Peru, San Francisco 1997, p. 108, ill. 40