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Vessel with Star Designs1–600 CE

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Ceramic cup with horizontal bands of cream, brick red, and charcoal gray, decorated with a row of alternating colored eight-petaled rosettes near the rim
Ceramic cup with flared rim and rounded base, decorated with horizontal bands: a row of alternating red and gray eight-pointed stars on a cream ground, red and gray striping, a wide white band, and a dark gray lower body.
Ceramic cup with flared rim and footed base, decorated with horizontal bands: a dark gray lower section, a wide cream band, narrow red and gray stripes, and a cream frieze bearing repeating eight-pointed star motifs in red and dark brown.
Ceramic cup with flared rim and horizontal banded decoration; upper band features alternating eight-pointed stars in dark red, gray-green, and rust on cream; below, dark red and white stripes transition to a broad gray-black lower section.
Ceramic vessel photographed from above, showing a warm terracotta-glazed interior with a raised central well, surrounded by an unglazed dark gray rim.

Unknown, Vessel with Star Designs, 1–600 CE, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Purchased with funds provided by Camilla Chandler Frost, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Title
Vessel with Star Designs
Culture
Nasca
Place Made
Peru, South Coast, Nazca
Date Made
1–600 CE
Medium
Slip-painted ceramic
Dimensions
Diameter: 5 1/5 in. (13.208 cm); 4 x 5 in. (10.16 x 12.7 cm)
Credit Line
Purchased with funds provided by Camilla Chandler Frost
Accession Number
M.2010.115.56
Classification
Ceramics
Collecting Area
Art of the Ancient Americas