Single Spout Blackware Vessel in the Form of Figures Riding on Reed Boat

Arts of the Americas

A.D. 1000/1400

Chimú
North coast, Peru

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Culture: Chimú
Title: Single Spout Blackware Vessel in the Form of Figures Riding on Reed Boat
Place: Peruvian North Coast (Object made in)
Date: Made 1000–1400
Medium: Ceramic and pigment
Dimensions: 21.3 × 21.6 cm (8 3/8 × 8 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Kate S. Buckingham Endowment
Reference Number: 1955.2382
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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, Berlin then Durham, SC, 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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