Head Fragment from a Large Ceremonial Jar

A.D. 700/800

Tiwanaku-Wari
Pacheco, south coast, Peru

On View: Arts of the Americas, Gallery 136

Culture: Tiwanaku
Title: Head Fragment from a Large Ceremonial Jar
Origin: Peru, southern
Date: 700 CE–800 CE
Medium: Ceramic and pigment
Dimensions: 11.1 × 10.5 cm (4 3/8 × 4 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: Kate S. Buckingham Endowment
Reference Number: 1955.2187

Heinrich Ubbelohde-Doering, The Art of Ancient Peru (Frederick A. Praeger, 1952), pl. 111 (ill.).
Heinrich Ubbelohde-Doering, The Art of Ancient Peru, 2nd ed., (Frederick A. Praeger, 1954), pl. 111 (ill.).

Eduard Gaffron (1861–1931), Lima, Peru, from 1892 to 1912, then Berlin, from [History of the Department report (Joanne Behrens, 1985) and correspondence in curatorial file]; by descent to his children Mercedes Gaffron, Berlin then Durham S.C. and Hans Gaffron (1902–1979), Berlin then Chicago [correspondence and documentation of the Gaffron Collection in curatorial file]; sold to the Art Institute, 1955.

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