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Vessel in the shape of a Spondylus shell with face

The body of the vessel is designed as a spondylus shell and the spout with a protruding rim is decorated with the eyes and beak of a bird. The shape of the spondylus shell is comparable to a vessel from Trujillo in the Gretzer Collection in the Ethnological Museum Berlin (SMB, inv. no. V A 47844). See also spondylus vessels from the Museum Larco Hoyle (cat. no. ML027432).

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Data Provider
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum - Kulturen der Welt
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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Chimú Inka
Object type
vessels (containers)
Dimensions
195 x 170 x 115 mm
Current location
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
Inventory number
RJM 31776
Other number(s)
RJM 1914/17

Provenance and sources

when
1470-1534
Period/Style
Late horizon; Chimú-Inca (style)
where
Peru
America -> South America -> Peru -> Coast (north) -> Pacasmayo (Place)

when
1907
who
Julius van der Zypen (1842 - 1907) - Funders

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