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Stirrup Spout Bottle Modeled as a House

Date

1200-800 BCE

Creator

Unrecorded Cupisnique artist

Location

Raclin Murphy Museum of Art

This is an example of a Cupisnique stirrup spout vessel in the shape of a house from around 1200 to 800 BCE—one of the finest examples known. The 3,000-year-old house reveals construction techniques practiced during this period, including the use of a peaked roof with roof beams protruding from either side. The striations on the roof suggest it was made of thatch. This particular piece became quite popular during an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the 1960s and actually inspired a company to make a line of paperweights in its exact form.

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This is an example of a Cupisnique stirrup spout vessel in the shape of a house from around 1200 to 800 BCE—one of the finest examples known. The 3,000-year-old house reveals construction techniques practiced during this period, including the use of a peaked roof with roof beams protruding from either side. The striations on the roof suggest it was made of thatch. This particular piece became quite popular during an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the 1960s and actually inspired a company to make a line of paperweights in its exact form.
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Unrecorded Cupisnique artist
1200-800 BCE
Sculpture
Slipped, excised, and pigmented ceramic
2008.050
Raclin Murphy Museum: 205A
9 x 4 3/4 x 4 1/2 in. (22.86 x 12.07 x 11.43 cm)
Rebecca Nanovic Lin, ND ’87 Fund

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