Reduced-scale Vessel

1450–1532

Inca
South coast or southern highlands, Peru

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

Culture: Inca
Title: Reduced-scale Vessel
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.: 1450–1532
Medium: Ceramic and pigment
Dimensions: H.: 17.2 cm (6 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Nathan Cummings
Reference Number: 1958.656
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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. 74, cat. 123 (ill.).
Richard Townsend with Elizabeth Pope, Indian Art of the Americas at the Art Institute of
Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago and Yale University Press, 2016), 373, cat. 349 (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, 1958.

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