Bowl with Anthropomorphic Figure

Arts of the Americas

650–150 BCE

Paracas
South coast, Peru

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Culture: Paracas
Title: Bowl with Anthropomorphic Figure
Place: Peru (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 650 BCE–150 BCE
Medium: Ceramic and pigment
Dimensions: 4.1 × 13.3 cm (1 5/8 × 5 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Nathan Cummings
Reference Number: 1963.873
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Art Institute of Chicago, Super/Natural: Textiles of the Andes, Feb. 23-June 16, 2019, no cat.

B. J. Wassermann (Bruno John), Buenos Aires, by 1938 [possibly acquired by descent from unnamed grandmother, Argentina, according to personal statement in Ceramics del Antiguo Peru de la Collection Wassermann-San Blas, 1938]; sold to Nathan Cummings (1896–1985), Chicago, 1954; given to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, N.Y., 1962; by exchange to the Art Institute, 1963 [documentation in curatorial file].

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