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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.
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