Stirrup vessel, Peru, northern region, Late Cupisnique, fired clay, ca 700-300 B.C. the wall with vertical stripe pattern, partly painted in dark red, incised decorations, spherical with flattened base, small old chips at the rim of the mouth with thermoluminescence certificate no. 486812 from "Labor für Fälschungserkennung", Haigerloch, Ralf Kotalla, dated 21.8.1986. Provenance: Eduard Burkhard, Amphora Antiken before 1985. collection August Maurer, receipt from 1985 available), private collection Germany. Notes Antiquities, part II.