Single Spout Bottle in the form of a Animal with Lined Skin

Arts of the Americas

A.D. 1000/1476

Possibly Lambayeque
North coast, Peru

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Culture: Lambayeque
Title: Single Spout Bottle in the form of a Animal with Lined Skin
Place: Peruvian North Coast (Object made in)
Date: Made 1000–1476
Medium: Ceramic and pigment
Dimensions: H.: 16.5 cm (6 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Nathan Cummings
Reference Number: 1958.696
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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. 109, cat. 193 (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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