Rounded Jar Depicting Abstract Fish or Sharks

Arts of the Americas

180 BCE–500 CE

Nazca
South coast, Peru

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Culture: Nasca
Title: Rounded Jar Depicting Abstract Fish or Sharks
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.: Made 180 BCE–500 CE
Medium: Ceramic and pigment
Dimensions: 17.2 × 20 cm (6 3/4 × 7 7/8 in.)
Credit Line: S. B. Williams Fund and Edward E. Ayer Endowment in memory of Charles L. Hutchinson
Reference Number: 1956.1151
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Allen Wardwell, Primitive Art in the Collections of the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 1965), fig. 10 (ill.).

Alan R. Sawyer, Park Forest, Ill., by 1956; sold to the Art Institute, 1956.

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