Vessel Depicting the Assault of Bean Warriors

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Arts of the Americas

100 BCE–500 CE

Moche
North coast, Peru

Status: On loan
Department: Arts of the Americas

Culture: Moche
Title: Vessel Depicting the Assault of Bean Warriors
Place: Peruvian North 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
Inscriptions: Inscribed bottom, top-middle, in graphite: "[1]" [encircled]; sticker affixed bottom, middle, inscribed in black ink: "IX [1] 721".
Dimensions: 25.9 × 13.2 cm (10 3/16 × 5 3/16 in.)
Credit Line: Kate S. Buckingham Endowment
Reference Number: 1955.2274
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Art Institute of Chicago, “Treasures of Ancient Peruvian Art,” Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly 46, no. 2 (Apr. 1, 1952): 29 (ill.), https://www.jstor.org/stable/4112566.
Wendell C. Bennett, Ancient Arts of the Andes, exh. cat. (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1954), 40, fig. 40 (ill.).
Allen Wardwell, Primitive Art in the Collections of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1965), fig. 19 (ill.).
Richard Townsend with Elizabeth Pope, Indian Art of the Americas at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2016), 313, cat. 265 (ill.).
Emily Marsh, “Lima Beans,” USDA National Agricultural Library, accessed May 30, 2024, https://www.nal.usda.gov/collections/stories/lima-beans, (ill.).
David Saunders and Megan E. O’Neil, eds., Picture Worlds: Storytelling on Greek, Moche, and Maya Pottery, exh. cat. (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2024), 11, 117, 122, 123, 155, no cat. no., fig. 2, pl. 22 (ill.), as Stirrup-Spout Vessel with Lima Bean Warriors.

New York, Museum of Modern Art, Ancient Arts of the Andes, Jan. 25–Mar. 21, 1954, cat.; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1954; San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, July 15–Sept. 15, 1954.
Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, Picture Worlds: Greek, Maya, and Moche Pottery, Apr. 10–July 29, 2024, cat.; Atlanta, Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Sept. 14–Dec. 15, 2024.

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 object 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 object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1955.

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