A Moche Painted Stirrup Spout Vessel, Late Phase IV/V, ca. A.D. 500-700

densely painted on each side with the animated striding figure of a ritual runner with large duckbill nose, and elaborately clothed with large arching headdress secured with a feline headband, with massive wing extended behind showing layered plumage, holding forth a sack with forked top, with striated ullucho, and a large cactus in the field.

Joseph Brummer, New York
Collection of Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, No. 33:136, acquired from the above, 1933

New York, Museum of Modern Art, "American Sources of Modern Art", May - June 1933
Cambridge, MA, Fogg Art Museum, "Pre-Columbian Art", January-February, 1940, cat. no. 75

"Art ancien et art contemporain" Cahier d'Art, Paris, 1934, no. 5, p. 177 (illus) 
Steven A. Nash, with Katy Kline, Charlotta Kotik and Emese Wood, Albright-Knox Art Gallery: Painting and Sculpture from Antiquity to 1942, Buffalo, New York, 1979, pg. 118 - 119

This vessel is the third example of the workshop of the "Elaborate Wing Painter",  featuring running warriors with large duck bills.  The Albright-Knox vessel is different in that the nose of the figure is totally obscured by the bill. It is closely related to "Elbow -in -Belt painter" (the main difference being the direction of the runners), but the close similarlity of subject and painting style may indicate all the works are by the same artist (Donnan, personal communication). For the related vessels see Donnan (1999: 253 - 255, especially Fig. 6.115).