photo of the ceramic leaf-nosed bat head bottle with single spout, side profile facing left
photo of the ceramic leaf-nosed bat head bottle with single spout, quarter turn profile
photo of the ceramic leaf-nosed bat head bottle with single spout, back view
photo of gallery label: “Cupisnique artist; Tembladera, North Coast, Peru Bottle with leaf-nosed bat head 1200-800 BCE Ceramic, cinnabar The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Purchase, Nelson A. Rockefeller Gift, 1968 (1978.412.210) Recorded provenance: Alan Lapiner, Arts of the Four Quarters Ltd., New York, by 1968; the MPA, New York, 1968-78 Potters occasionally applied red pigments to vessels after firing to create a more dramatic visual effect. Iron-based ochres were common, but sometimes potters used cinnabar, a mercury-rich mineral, to create bright reds. Cinnabar was imported to the North Coast from Huancavelica, a highland region some five hundred miles south of where these vessels were allegedly found.”
#Baturday 🦇:
Cupisnique artist; Tembladera,
North Coast, Peru
Bottle with leaf-nosed #bat head
1200-800 BCE
Ceramic, cinnabar
on display at The Met (1978.412.210)
#IndigenousArt #AndeanArt #PeruvianArt #AncientArt
