Aryballos with Modeled and Painted Face on Neck of Vessel

Arts of the Americas

A.D. 1200/1450

Inca-Lambayeque
North coast, Peru

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Culture: Inca
Title: Aryballos with Modeled and Painted Face on Neck of Vessel
Origin: North Coast
Date: 1200–1450
Medium: Ceramic and pigment
Dimensions: 15.4 × 10.3 cm (6 1/16 × 4 1/16 in.)
Credit Line: Kate S. Buckingham Endowment
Reference Number: 1955.2412

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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