Bottle in the Form of a Severed Trophy Head

180 B.C./A.D. 500

Nazca
South coast, Peru

On View: Arts of the Americas, Gallery 136

Culture: Nazca
Title: Bottle in the Form of a Severed Trophy Head
Origin: South Coast
Date: 180 BCE–500 CE
Medium: Ceramic and pigment
Dimensions: 15.2 × 18.9 cm (6 × 7 7/16 in.)
Credit Line: Kate S. Buckingham Endowment
Reference Number: 1955.2154

Richard Townsend, “Deciphering the Nazca World: Ceramic Images from Ancient Peru,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 11, 2 (Spring 1985), pg. 130 (ill.).
Richard Townsend with Elizabeth Pope. 2016. Indian Art of the Americas at the Art Institute of Chicago. Art Institute of Chicago and Yale University Press, p. 301, cat. 251.

Zurich, Switzerland, Museum Rietberg Zurich, Nasca: Geheimnisvolle Zeichen im Alten Peru, June 20–October 3, 1999, cat.; traveled to Vienna, Museum fur Volkerkunde, October 29, 1999–January 31, 2000.

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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