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Jar with handles (urpu): sea life
1460–1534
Dallas Museum of Art
Dallas, United States
This vessel reflects the influence of Inca imperial expansion on coastal ceramic styles. This Late Horizon Chimú blackware vessel exhibits the distinctive features of a common Inca vessel form, the urpu. These features include the long, constricted neck, wide body, and flat base.
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Details
- Title: Jar with handles (urpu): sea life
- Date Created: 1460–1534
- Physical Dimensions: 6 1/2 × 5 1/8 × 5 in. (16.51 × 13.02 × 12.7 cm)
- Type: Containers
- External Link: https://www.dma.org/object/artwork/4356017/
- Medium: Ceramic
- period: Late Horizon
- culture: Chimú-Inca (Inka)
- Credit Line: Dallas Museum of Art, The Nora and John Wise Collection, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Jake L. Hamon, the Eugene McDermott Family, Mr. and Mrs. Algur H. Meadows and the Meadows Foundation, Incorporated, and Mr. and Mrs. John D. Murchison
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