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Bottle shaped like human head

1440–1540

Dallas Museum of Art

Dallas Museum of Art
Dallas, United States

This vessel reflects the influence of Inca imperial expansion on coastal ceramic styles. This Late Horizon blackware vessel exhibits the distinctive features of a common Inca vessel form, the urpu, including the long, constricted neck, wide body, and flat base. The vessel body itself is rendered as a human head with elaborate head covering.

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  • Title: Bottle shaped like human head
  • Date Created: 1440–1540
  • Physical Dimensions: 7 1/4 × 5 × 4 3/4 in. (18.42 × 12.7 × 12.07 cm)
  • Type: Containers
  • External Link: https://www.dma.org/object/artwork/3108018/
  • Medium: Ceramic
  • period: Late Horizon
  • culture: Chimu-Inca (Inka)
  • Credit Line: Dallas Museum of Art, gift of Mrs. Nancy G. Sayles
Dallas Museum of Art

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