Portrait Vessel of a Figure

Arts of the Americas

100 BCE–500 CE

Moche
Chimbote, Santa Valley, north coast, Peru

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Culture: Moche
Title: Portrait Vessel of a Figure
Place: Peruvian North Coast (Object made in:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 100 BCE–500 CE
Medium: Ceramic and pigment
Dimensions: H.: 23.5 cm (9 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Nathan Cummings
Reference Number: 1958.737
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B. J. Wassermann-San Blás, Céramicas del Antiguo Perú de la Colección Wassermann-San Blás (Casa Jacobo Peuser, 1938), 160, cat. 278 (ill.).

B. J. Wassermann-San Blás (born c. 1874), Buenos Aires, by 1938 [Wassermann-San Blás, 1938]; sold to Nathan Cummings (1896–1985), Chicago, 1954; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1958.

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