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

Artist: Tiwanaku
Title: Bottle with a Masked Figure and Abstract Feline and Textile Motifs
Origin: Santa Valley
Date: 700 AD–900 AD
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.).

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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