Stirrup-spout Vessel in the form of a Frog

Unidentified Early Moche (Mochica) maker

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Moche I, 100-300

Mold-made terracotta with red slip

Overall: 5 1/2 × 5 1/2 × 8 11/16 in. (14 × 14 × 22 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Richard J. MacCornack, Class of 1937

56.12.13563

Geography

Place Made: Coastal, Peru, South America

Period

1-500

Object Name

Pottery

Research Area

Americas

Not on view

Provenance

Acquired in Peru by Richard John MacCornack (1914-1998), Boulder, Colorado, about 1938; given to present collection, 1956.

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