Vessel with Stirrup Spout
Unknown Artist
1900s (thermoluminescence date)
Medium
earthenware
Dimensions
22.8 × 17.2 cm
Classification
Ceramic
Department
Art of the Americas
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Purchase, Bequest of Helen Humphreys
Accession Number
1968.192
About this artwork
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.