Spouted Vessel with Carved Designs
This spouted vessel was probably used to serve the corn beer known as chicha or other beverages in ritual gatherings. The earliest ceramic containers were originally modeled on bottle gourds, and the curves of this example, dating to the 2nd millennium BCE, are similar to vege...
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Mr. Alexis Forrester, London, before the late 1970s [mode of acquisition unknown]; Economos Works of Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Private collection, 1989, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 2009, by gift.
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