Description (Labels & Markings)
On base of vessel, in red paint: '[illegible]VINN. Vize Coll. Sotheby. May 1888 Lot 407. 329.' Above that, in black ink: '59'.
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (Analysis)
In his bequest schedule, Prof. Richard Keynes writes that this object was: 'Catalogued by Sotheby's (Lot 308, 27.vi.77) as Chimu, but from Bushnell 'Ancient Arts of the Americas' Fig. 148, is in Salinar style, later centuries BC. Formerly in Vize Collection, sold at Sotheby's to the Pitt-Rivers Museum in May 1888 as Lot 407.'
Event Date 27/6/1977
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Red ware stirrup pot with round, slightly squat body and flared spout. The stirrup handle takes the form of an elongated monkey's body, with its head projecting at one end and its tail in moulded relief at the other end.
Event Date 5/10/2012
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Stirrup-spout vessel of red ware, depicting a monkey. Formed of a round, slightly biconical body with slightly curved base; with a. thick stirrup handle and flared spout with simple rim. A monkeys head projects from the bottom of one end with bent arms stretched out; the other handle has a raised ring, the rear legs and a curling tail in relief on the body. Slightly burnished, small chip to rim.
Event Date 17/12/2024
Author: Clare McKenna