Bottle with a Masked Figure and Abstract Feline and Textile Motifs

700–900

Tiwanaku-Wari
Possibly Santa Valley, north coast, Peru

Status: On View, Gallery 136
Department: Arts of the Americas

Culture: Tiwanaku
Title: Bottle with a Masked Figure and Abstract Feline and Textile Motifs
Place: Santa Valley (Object found 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.: 700 CE–900 CE
Medium: Ceramic and pigment
Dimensions: 20.8 × 15.9 cm (8 3/16 × 6 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Kate S. Buckingham Endowment
Reference Number: 1955.2374
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Alan R. Sawyer, Animal Sculpture in Pre-Columbian Art, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1957), pg. 40 (ill.).
Richard Townsend with Elizabeth Pope, Indian Art of the Americas at the Art Institute of
Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago and Yale University Press, 2016), 337, cat. 303 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, Animal Sculpture in Pre-Columbian Art, Oct. 12, 1957–Feb. 2, 1958, cat. pg. 40 (ill.).

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

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