Double-Spouted Vessel Depicting Masked Felines

180 B.C./A.D. 500

Nazca
South coast, Peru

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

Culture: Nazca
Title: Double-Spouted Vessel Depicting Masked Felines
Origin: South Coast
Date: 180 BCE–500 CE
Medium: Ceramic and pigment
Dimensions: 18.7 × 20.6 cm (7 3/8 × 8 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: Kate S. Buckingham Endowment
Reference Number: 1955.2139
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Walter Lehmann and Dr. Heinrich Doering, Kunstgeschichte des Alten Peru (Verlag Ernst Wasmuth A.G., 1924), pl. 32 (ill.).
Walter Lehmann and Heinrich Doering, Ph.D., The Art of Old Peru (Ernst Wasmuth Ltd., 1924), pl. 32 (ill.).
Walter Lehmann and Heinrich Doering, The Art of Old Peru, reissued (Hacker Art Books, 1975), pl. 32 (ill.).

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

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