Vessel Depicting the Assault of Bean Warriors

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100 B.C./A.D. 500

Moche
North coast, Peru

On View: Arts of the Americas, Gallery 136

Artist: Moche
Title: Vessel Depicting the Assault of Bean Warriors
Origin: North Coast
Date: 100 BC–500 AD
Medium: Ceramic and pigment
Dimensions: 25.9 × 13.2 cm (10 3/16 × 5 3/16 in.)
Credit Line: Kate S. Buckingham Endowment
Reference Number: 1955.2274

Allen Wardwell, Primitive Art in the Collections of the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 1965), fig. 19 (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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