Stirrup Spout Vessel in Form of Stacked Bowls of Food

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 Form of Stacked Bowls of Food
Origin: North Coast
Date: Made 100 BCE–500 CE
Medium: Ceramic and pigment
Dimensions: H. 19.7 cm (7 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Nathan Cummings
Reference Number: 1958.666

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), 82, cat. 139 (ill.).
Alan R. Sawyer, The Nathan Cummings Collection of Ancient Peruvian Art [Formerly Wassermann-San Blas Collection]—Handbook, exh. cat. (Chicago: Nathan Cummings and Art Institute of Chicago, 1954), 15 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, Peruvian Pottery and Weaving of an Ancient Date, Nathan Cummings Collection, formerly the Wassermann- San Blas Collection, Jun. 28, 1954–Jan. 3, 1955, cat. Alan R. Sawyer, Nathan Cummings Collection of Ancient Peruvian Art (formerly Wasserman-San Blas)—a Handbook (Chicago, 1954).

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, 1958.

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