Portrait Vessel of a Ruler with Face Paint and Large Earflares

Arts of the Americas

100 BCE–500 CE

Moche
North coast, Peru

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Culture: Moche
Title: Portrait Vessel of a Ruler with Face Paint and Large Earflares
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.: Made 100 BCE–500 CE
Medium: Ceramic and pigment
Dimensions: 20 × 13.7 × 16.2 cm (7 7/8 × 5 3/8 × 6 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Nathan Cummings
Reference Number: 1957.599
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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), 161, cat. 280 (ill.).
Alan R. Sawyer, The Nathan Cummings Collection of Ancient Peruvian Art [Formerly Wassermann-San Blas Collection]—Handbook, exh. cat. (Chicago: Nathan Cummings and Art Institute of Chicago, 1954), 27 (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, cat. Alan R. Sawyer, Nathan Cummings Collection of Ancient Peruvian Art (formerly Wasserman-San Blas)—a Handbook (Chicago, 1954).

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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