Vessel in Form of a Head Wearing a Bird Headdress

Arts of the Americas

100 B.C./A.D. 500

Moche
North coast, Peru

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Culture: Moche
Title: Vessel in Form of a Head Wearing a Bird Headdress
Origin: Moche Valley
Date: Made 100 BCE–500 CE
Medium: Ceramic and pigment
Dimensions: 21.4 × 17.8 cm (8 7/16 × 7 in.)
Credit Line: Kate S. Buckingham Endowment
Reference Number: 1955.2333

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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