Vessel with Killer Whales

CC0 Public Domain Designation

100 BCE–500 CE

Nazca
South coast, Peru

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

Culture: Nasca
Title: Vessel with Killer Whales
Place: Peruvian South 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: 17.9 × 16.2 cm (7 1/16 × 6 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: Kate S. Buckingham Endowment
Reference Number: 1955.2097
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Everett McNear, High Culture in the Americas before 1500, exh. cat. (Arts Club Chicago, 1982), pp. 42-43 (ill.)
Richard Townsend, “Deciphering the Nazca World: Ceramic Images from Ancient Peru,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 11, 2 (Spring 1985), pg. 133 (ill.).
Richard Townsend with Elizabeth Pope, Indian Art of the Americas at the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 2016), 304, cat. 255.

Arts Club of Chicago, High Culture in the Americas before 1500, Nov. 15–Dec. 31, 1982, ex. cat. 102.

Eduard Gaffron (1861–1931), Lima, Peru, from 1892 to 1912, then Berlin, from 1912 [History of the Department report (Joanne Behrens, 1985) and correspondence in curatorial file]; by descent to his children Mercedes Gaffron (1908–1993), Berlin then Durham, NC, and Hans Gaffron (1902–1979), Berlin then Chicago [correspondence and documentation of the Gaffron Collection in curatorial file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1955.

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