Property from a European Private Collection
Chavin Stirrup-Spout Vessel with Mice
Cuspisnique, Late Initial Period, circa 1200 - 200 BC
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Property from a European Private Collection
Chavin Stirrup-Spout Vessel with Mice
Cuspisnique, Late Initial Period, circa 1200 - 200 BC
Height: 10 ½ in (26.7 cm)
Carlos Poveda, Paris
European Private Collection, acquired from the above in 2003
Gillett Griffin, et al., eds., Ancient American Art, 3500 BC-AD 1532: Masterworks of the Pre-Columbian Era, Milan, 2011, p. 313
The lustrous blackware vessel bears an architectural form with the squared platform surmounted by a pair of mice. The handles supported on their backs brings an overall unity to the function and naturalistic imagery.
The Cuspisnique style of the north coast was known for the monumental architecture and such blackware ceramics with finely modeled zoomorphic figures.
For another Cuspisnique vessel with mice, see Luis Jaime Castillo, Cecilia Pardo, eds., De Cuspisnique a los Incas, El Arte del Valle de Jequetepeque, Lima, 2009, p.111. cat. 18.
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