Stirrup Spout Vessel in the Form of a Anthropomorphic Owl

Arts of the Americas

100 B.C./A.D. 500

Moche
North coast, Peru

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Culture: Moche
Title: Stirrup Spout Vessel in the Form of a Anthropomorphic Owl
Origin: Peruvian North Coast
Date: Made 100 BCE–500 CE
Medium: Ceramic and pigment
Dimensions: 21.6 × 15.9 × 19.4 cm (8 1/2 × 6 1/4 × 7 5/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Nathan Cummings
Reference Number: 1957.597

B.J. (Bruno John) Wassermann-San Blas, Ceramics del Antiguo Peru de la Collection Wassermann-San Blas [with introduction by Heinz Lehmann] (Wassermann-San Blas, Buenos Aires, 1938), p. 149, cat. 263 (ill.).

B. J. Wassermann (Bruno John), Buenos Aires, by 1938 [possibly acquired by descent from unnamed grandmother, Argentina, according to personal statement in Ceramics del Antiguo Peru de la Collection Wassermann-San Blas, 1938]; sold to Nathan Cummings (1896–1985), Chicago, 1954; given to the Art Institute, 1957.

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