Negative-Painted Spotted Vessel with Bird-Head Spout

650–150 BCE

Paracas
Juan Pablo area, Ica Valley, south coast, Peru

Status: On View, Gallery 136
Department: Arts of the Americas

Culture: Paracas
Title: Negative-Painted Spotted Vessel with Bird-Head Spout
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: 14.3 × 16.5 cm (5 5/8 × 6 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Nathan Cummings
Reference Number: 1963.878
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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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