Vessel in the Form of Two Figures Seated Inside a Structure

A.D. 1200/1450

Chimú
North coast, Peru

On View: Arts of the Americas, Gallery 136

Culture: Chimú
Title: Vessel in the Form of Two Figures Seated Inside a Structure
Origin: North Coast
Date: 1200–1450
Medium: Ceramic
Dimensions: 23 × 12.1 cm (9 3/16 × 4 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Kate S. Buckingham Endowment
Reference Number: 1955.2387

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, pp. 354-355, cat. 325 (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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