Vessel in the Form of a Courtly Musician

100 BCE–500 CE

Moche
North coast, Peru

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

Culture: Moche
Title: Vessel in the Form of a Courtly Musician
Place: Peruvian North Coast (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.: 100 BCE–500 CE
Medium: Ceramic and pigment
Dimensions: 26.7 × 17.8 cm (10 1/2 × 7 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Nathan Cummings
Reference Number: 1957.414
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B.J. Wassermann, Ceramics del Antiguo Peru de la Collection Wassermann-San Blas (Buenos Aires: Wassermann-San Blas, 1938), 227, cat. 400 (ill.).
Alan R. Sawyer, et al., The Nathan Cummings Collection of Ancient Peruvian Art (Formerly Wassermann-San Blas Collection): Handbook, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1954), 12 (ill.).
Christopher B. Donnan, “Moche Ceramic Portraits,” in Studies in the History of Art, vol. 63, Symposium Papers XL: Moche Art and Archaeology in Ancient Peru, 2001 (National Gallery of Art, 2002), 136, fig. 21 (ill.)
Richard Townsend with Elizabeth Pope, Indian Art of the Americas at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2016), 323, cat. 286 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, Peruvian Pottery and Weaving of an Ancient Date, Nathan Cummings Collection, formerly the Wassermann-San Blas Collection, June 28, 1954–Jan. 3, 1955, no cat. no.

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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