An exhibited Chimu-Inca Double Bird Effigy Vessel, Late Intermediate Period - Late Horizon, ca. 1100 - 1500 CE Architectural London: Faber and Faber (1974)

London: Faber and Faber (1974)

Cataloged into groups by archaeologist Rolf Stucky in the 1970s

who is embodied in Ptah

These color variations are inherent to anhydrite and make each vessel unique

built by French landscape architect André Le Nôtre in 1677

An exhibited Chimu-Inca Double Bird Effigy Vessel, Late Intermediate Period - Late Horizon, ca. 1100 - 1500 CE Architectural London: Faber and Faber (1974)A striking blackware stirrup spout vessel featuring the conjoined effigies of two long billed water birds, likely shorebirds or cormorants, rendered in a dynamic and naturalistic pose. One bird is shown preening the neck of the other, while the second turns its head back across its body. Both figures are sculpted with tight wings, bulbous eyes, and prominent beaks, each anchoring one end of the stirrup spout that rises centrally. The vessel rests on a