Portrait Vessel of a Man with a Cleft Lip and Tattoos

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100 B.C./A.D. 500

Moche
North coast, Peru

On View: Arts of the Americas, Gallery 136

Artist: Moche
Title: Portrait Vessel of a Man with a Cleft Lip and Tattoos
Origin: North Coast
Date: 100 BC–500 AD
Medium: Ceramic and pigment
Dimensions: 21.3 × 14.9 × 21.6 cm (8 3/8 × 5 7/8 × 8 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Nathan Cummings
Reference Number: 1957.607

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. 227, cat. 400 (ill.).

B. J. Wassermann (Bruno John), Buenos Aries, 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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