Drawings Pottery vessel from Chile
Object number
LDSAL2020.42.129
Artist/Designer/Maker
Gould, Nathaniel - Artist
Production date
Circa 1846
Material
Paper
Pen
Ink
Pen
Ink
Technique
Drawing
Dimensions
Height: 180mm
Width: 257mm
Width: 257mm
Inscriptions
Inscription content
Antient Chilian [sic] Pottery
Inscription content
N. Gould
Inscription content
No 3 - From an antient [sic] place of Sepulture in the Interior of Chili [sic], which I presume to have been a water Jug & drinking Vessel - by blowing into the pipe a whistle is produced - as if the instrument was at the same time intended for a Child's Toy - It is of unbaked Earth - a pale Yellow Color [sic] and the lined ornament red like Etruscan
Presented to the Society of Antiquaries by Gould Esqre. F.S.A. 16 May 1846.
Presented to the Society of Antiquaries by Gould Esqre. F.S.A. 16 May 1846.
References
Reference (free text)
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London 1 (1843-1849): 139-40.
Nathaniel Gould exhibited three specimens of ancient pottery to the Society, 14 May 1846.
Reference (free text)
Albert Way, Catalogue of Miscellaneous Collections in the Possession of the Society of Antiquaries of London (unpublished catalogue), no. 1021, p. 130.
