Bottle with a Masked Figure and Abstract Feline and Textile Motifs

A.D. 700/900

Tiwanaku-Wari
Possibly Santa Valley, north coast, Peru

On View: Arts of the Americas, Gallery 136

Culture: Tiwanaku
Title: Bottle with a Masked Figure and Abstract Feline and Textile Motifs
Origin: Santa Valley
Date: 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

Alan R. Sawyer, Animal Sculpture in Pre-Columbian Art, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1957), pg. 40 (ill.).
Richard Townsend with Elizabeth Pope. 2016. Indian Art of the Americas at the Art Institute of Chicago. Art Institute of Chicago and Yale University Press, p. 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 [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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