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Vessel

MOA: University of British Columbia

3111/8

Polychrome vessel with thin spout, rounded base, lenticular body and everted rim. Two whale deity designs are painted in vessel body with proliferous heads and a trophy head hanging from their mouths. Inner red-brown rim has five white profile birds with black dots in the interior and white dots between them. Painted in cream, grey, red-brown, orange-brown, light yellow, dark grey and black. Molded manufacture; polished surface. Breakage repaired.

  • Narrative

    Rosita Tovell's father was a collector of Peruvian pre-Columbian ceramics. Rosita moved to Peru in the early 1960s, while her husband served as ambassador to Peru and Bolivia. During this time Rosita began to study and collect pre-Columbian Peruvian ceramics and textiles.

  • Type of Item vessel
  • Culture Nasca
  • Material clay, paint
  • Measurements height 9.9 cm, width 14.0 cm, depth 13.0 cm (overall)
  • Previous Owner Rosita LeSueur Tovell, Susan Moogk, Patricia Skahan, Peter H.M. Tovell, Rosemarie L. Tovell
  • Received from Susan Moogk, Rosemarie L. Tovell, Peter H.M. Tovell, Patricia Skahan
  • Made in Ica
  • Creation Date between 101 BCE and 800
  • Collection Date during 1947
  • Ownership Date before May 21, 2015
  • Acquisition Date on May 21, 2015
  • Item Classes ceramics
  • Condition good
  • Accession Number 3111/0008

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