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Double spouted stirrup vessel: pepper design

Photo: Elizabeth Mann

Double spouted stirrup vessel: pepper design

ca. 100 B.C. - 200 A.D.

The Nasca of the South Coast, contemporaries of the Moche, created ceramic art in a wider, more vivid range of colors. The depiction of chili peppers on the surface of this vessel enhances its celebratory function-a whistling sound is produced when beer is poured from the spout.

Burnished ceramic with polychrome slip
7 in. (17.78 cm)
Diam.: 5 1/4 in.
Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection
46.78
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
location
Now on view at the Seattle Art Museum

Resources

Exhibition HistoryHonolulu, Hawaii, Honolulu International Center, Flora Pacifica Exhibition, 1970.

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Peru's Golden Treasures, Mar. 20 - July 20, 1980.

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Art of the Ancient Americas, July 10, 1999 - May 11, 2003.

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Feasting with the Gods: Art and Ceremony in Ancient Mesoamerica and the Central Andes, Dec. 11, 2003 - July 19, 2004.

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Cosmic Beings in Mesoamerican and Andean Art, Nov. 10, 2018 - ongoing.

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