Chavin Culture 1200 BC-400 BC
Elegant Black Ware Stirrup Vessel, Circa. 900 - 200 BC
Ceramic
22.5 cm high
8'8" in. high
750 grams
8'8" in. high
750 grams
CHAV0014
Copyright of Paul Hughes Fine Arts
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An elegant and early black ware stirrup vessel with bulbous body, decorated with triangular forms and pecked zones.
An elegant and early black ware stirrup vessel with bulbous body, decorated with triangular forms and pecked zones.
Literature
Cf. Sotheby's Pre-Columbian Art, New York, May 1985, lots 3 and 7 for early examples of stirrup vessels;cf. Miller, R., Art of the Andes from Chavin to Inca, Thames and Hudson, 1994, p. 49, no.36, for a very similar example;
cf. Burger, R., Chavin and the Origins of Andean Civilization, Thames and Hudson, 1995, p. 139, no. 133, for a close example.