Double Stirrup-Spout Vessel with Killer Whale Deity

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Double Stirrup-Spout Vessel with Killer Whale Deity

Date100 BC–700 AD

PlacePeru

MediumEarthenware with slip

DimensionsOverall: 7 3/8 × 6 3/8 × 6 1/2 in. (18.7 × 16.2 × 16.5 cm)

Credit LineGift of Alfred C. Glassell, Jr.

Object number2010.297

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Department

Art of the Indigenous Americas, Glassell Collection

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CERAMICS

Provenance(Lot #464 in Arte Primitivo's Fine Pre-Columbian and Tribal Art Auction, June 18, 2007. Auction #42);
Alfred C. Glassell, Jr. Collection, Houston;
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2010, 2010.297
Exhibition History“Fangs, Feathers, and Fins: Sacred Creatures in Ancient American Art,” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 15, 2014–March 22, 2015.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

White sticker on bottom: 1698-5

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