Double Vessel in the Form of a Seated Monkey with Coca Bag Around Neck

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Arts of the Americas

100 B.C./A.D. 500

Moche
Chimbote, Santa Valley, north coast, Peru

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Department: Arts of the Americas

Culture: Moche
Title: Double Vessel in the Form of a Seated Monkey with Coca Bag Around Neck
Origin: Peru
Date: Made 100 BCE–500 CE
Medium: Ceramic and pigment
Dimensions: H. 21 cm (8 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Nathan Cummings
Reference Number: 1957.397
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B.J. (Bruno John) Wassermann-San Blas, Ceramics del Antiguo Peru de la Collection Wassermann-San Blas [with introduction by Heinz Lehmann] (Wassermann-San Blas, Buenos Aires, 1938), p. 113, cat. 200 (ill.).
Alan R. Sawyer, Animal Sculpture in Pre-Columbian Art, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1957), pg. 29 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, Animal Sculpture in Pre-Columbian Art, Oct. 12, 1957–Feb. 2, 1958, cat. pg. 29 (ill.).

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 Art Institute, 1957.

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