Jar with Abstract Human Face Painted on Shoulder

Arts of the Americas

650/150 B.C.

Paracas
Ica Valley, south coast, Peru

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Culture: Paracas
Title: Jar with Abstract Human Face Painted on Shoulder
Place: Peru (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.: 650 BCE–150 BCE
Medium: Ceramic and pigment
Dimensions: H.: 21.3 cm (8 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Buckingham Fund and James W. Ellsworth
Reference Number: 1961.918
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Malcolm K. Whyte (died 1967), Milwaukee, WI, from 1957 [this and the following according to Parsons 1962 and Newbury 2014]; given to the Milwaukee Public Museum, 1960 or 1961 [according to correspondence from Milwaukee Public Museum, Apr. 25, 2002, MPM accession number A51427/18046 incoming permanent receipt RX3573, June 16, 1961, copies in curatorial object file, Arts of the Americas]; by exchange to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1961.

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