Offering Vessel in the Form of an Alpaca

1450–1532

Inca
Probably vicinity of Cuzco, Peru

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

Culture: Inca
Title: Offering Vessel in the Form of an Alpaca
Place: Cuzco (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.: 1450–1532
Medium: Stone
Dimensions: 9.8 × 14.9 cm (3 7/8 × 5 7/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of James W. and Marilynn Alsdorf
Reference Number: 1957.102
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Richard Townsend with Elizabeth Pope, Indian Art of the Americas at the Art Institute of
Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago and Yale University Press, 2016), 369, cat. 347 (ill.).

James Alsdorf (died 1990) and Marilynn Alsdorf (born Bruder) (died 2019), Chicago, by 1957; given to the Art Institute, 1957.

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