1976.W.104 Stirrup-spout bottle: pepino fruits (Peru, Moche)


GENERAL DESCRIPTION  

NOTES
  • Moche, Early Intermediate Period, 200–450 C.E. (noted on TMS), updated by KJones on 10/15/13, 11/29/13, 06/19/14, 02/05/16, and 09/06/16.
  • Fun Facts Source: Junius B. Bird Report, 1/26/1976, p. 31, TMS, Notes / Text Entries, Attribution.

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Artist/designers

Cultures
Moche: AAT: 300017287

Geography 
Moche (river): TGN: 7016595
Peru (nation): TGN: 1000056

Process/materials
ceramic (material): AAT: 300235507
slip (clay): AAT: 300010459
slip glaze: AAT: 300015110
paint (coating): AAT: 300015029
clay: AAT: 300010439
modeling (forming): AAT: 300053130
coiling (pottery technique): AAT: 300053903
firing (technique): AAT: 300053887

Historical periods
Early Intermediate period (Pre-Columbian Andean styles and periods): AAT: 300017280

Individuals

Subject terms
vessels (containers): AAT: 300193015
ritual vessels: AAT: 300265801
bridge spouts: AAT: 300203289
stirrup-spout vessel (containers): DMA
funerary objects: AAT: 300234126 
Solanaceae (family): AAT: 300375502
pepino (pepino dulce / evergreen shrub / Solanum muricatum): DMA
fruit (plant components): AAT: 300011868
gourd (plant / fruit): AAT: 300011870
gourd (shape): DMA
round (shape): AAT: 300121969
circular (shape): AAT: 300263827
effigies (funerary sculpture): AAT: 300047108

RELATED OBJECTS 

PROVENANCE 
Until 1976: Nora and John Wise, New York [1]

From 1976: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 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 [1], [2]

[1] The main source for this provenance is letter from A.L. Woodman, Chief of Valuation Analysis Section of the Internal Revenue Service, to Harry S. Parker, Director of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts (dated July 23, 1979, copy in Dallas Museum of Art Collections Records Object File, Confidential). Exceptions and other supporting documents are noted.

[2] The name of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, founded in 1933, was changed to the Dallas Museum of Art in 1983.

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FUN FACTS
  • In his 1976 report, Junius B. Bird, curator emeritus of South American archaeology at the American Museum of Natural History, notes: "***N93 Complex representation of 3 tiers, each with 8 pepino fruits. Red on creamy slip. (The pepino is a sterile hybrid plant propagated only by cuttings.) Mochica I/II."

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  • In his 1976 report, Junius B. Bird, curator emeritus of South American archaeology at the American Museum of Natural History, notes: "***N93 Complex representation of 3 tiers, each with 8 pepino fruits. Red on creamy slip. (The pepino is a sterile hybrid plant propagated only by cuttings.) Mochica I/II."

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Notes
  • Moche, Early Intermediate Period, 200–450 C.E. (noted on TMS), updated by KJones on 10/15/13, 11/29/13, 06/19/14, 02/05/16, and 09/06/16.
  • Fun Facts Source: Junius B. Bird Report, 1/26/1976, p. 31, TMS, Notes / Text Entries, Attribution.

Catalogue essays

Artist/designers

Cultures
Moche: AAT: 300017287

Geography 
Moche (river): TGN: 7016595
Peru (nation): TGN: 1000056

Process/materials
ceramic (material): AAT: 300235507
slip (clay): AAT: 300010459
slip glaze: AAT: 300015110
paint (coating): AAT: 300015029
clay: AAT: 300010439
modeling (forming): AAT: 300053130
coiling (pottery technique): AAT: 300053903
firing (technique): AAT: 300053887

Historical periods
Early Intermediate period (Pre-Columbian Andean styles and periods): AAT: 300017280

Individuals

Subject terms
vessels (containers): AAT: 300193015
ritual vessels: AAT: 300265801
bridge spouts: AAT: 300203289
stirrup-spout vessel (containers): DMA
funerary objects: AAT: 300234126 
Solanaceae (family): AAT: 300375502
pepino (pepino dulce / evergreen shrub / Solanum muricatum): DMA
fruit (plant components): AAT: 300011868
gourd (plant / fruit): AAT: 300011870
gourd (shape): DMA
round (shape): AAT: 300121969
circular (shape): AAT: 300263827
effigies (funerary sculpture): AAT: 300047108

RELATED OBJECTS 

PROVENANCE 
Until 1976: Nora and John Wise, New York [1]

From 1976: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 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 [1], [2]

[1] The main source for this provenance is letter from A.L. Woodman, Chief of Valuation Analysis Section of the Internal Revenue Service, to Harry S. Parker, Director of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts (dated July 23, 1979, copy in Dallas Museum of Art Collections Records Object File, Confidential). Exceptions and other supporting documents are noted.

[2] The name of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, founded in 1933, was changed to the Dallas Museum of Art in 1983.

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ceramic (material): AAT: 300235507
clay: AAT: 300010439
funerary objects: AAT: 300234126
modeling (forming): AAT: 300053130
slip (clay): AAT: 300010459
slip glaze: AAT: 300015110
paint (coating): AAT: 300015029
effigies (funerary sculpture): AAT: 300047108
coiling (pottery technique): AAT: 300053903
circular (shape): AAT: 300263827
effigies (general portraits): 300404933
vessels (containers): AAT: 300193015
ritual vessels: AAT: 300265801
lines (geometric concept): AAT: 300056279
gourd (plant / fruit): AAT: 300011870
red (color): AAT: 300126225
Peru (nation): TGN: 1000056
firing (technique): AAT: 300053887
bridge spouts: AAT: 300203289
stirrup-spout vessel (containers): AAT: 300417500
Moche: AAT: 300017287
Moche (river): TGN: 7016595
gourd (shape): DMA
round (shape): AAT: 300121969
Early Intermediate period (Pre-Columbian Andean styles and periods): AAT: 300017280
cream (color): AAT: 300266242
fruit (plant components): AAT: 300011868
Solanaceae (family): AAT: 300375502
pepino (pepino dulce / evergreen shrub / Solanum muricatum): DMA
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