Context (Field collection)
The Colchester Museum label read that the collection was from Chimbote and Trujillo.
Event Date
Author: Dominique Devadason

Context (Other owners)
Collected by Arthur Edwin Macandrew during the 30 years he lived in Peru, where he was the manager of a sugar plantation. He donated his collection to the Colchester Museum in July 1931; the collection was subsequently transferred to MAA in 1947.
Event Date 1931
Author: Dominique Devadason

Context (References)
(1932). The Colchester & Essex Museum Annual Report, 1931-1932. Colchester: Cullingford & Co., Ltd. pp. 4 & 53.
Event Date 1932
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Analysis)
Catalogue card in G.H.S. Bushnell's hand reads: 'Probably Chimu, Chimbote'.
Event Date 1947
Author: Dominique Devadason

Context (Related Documents)
Original card has drawing
Event Date 1947
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Metal flasks, apparently of base silver or copper with a wash of fine silver on the surface. Made in 3 parts, top and bottom of body and neck.
Event Date 1947
Author: maa

Context (Analysis)
This vessel shares some features with a 'Miniature Bottle' from Peru, as photographed by The Met (1964) in 'Miniature Bottle: 64.228.421', https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/308932.
Event Date 12/12/2024
Author: Dominique Devadason

Description (Physical description)
Silver alloy miniature bottle. Simple rim; slightly flaring neck, with a vertical seam; neck is fitted inside body, and is modular; rim of body is on outside of neck; biconical globular body, horizontal joining seam visible; flat base. Surface has a mottled brass hue; body has some indents; material loss in the body.
Event Date 12/12/2024
Author: Dominique Devadason

Context (Display)
Wire loop wound around vessel neck, likely the remnants of a previous display method at unknown date. Wire now removed.
Event Date 13/12/2024
Author: Dominique Devadason