Miniature Ceremonial Vessel (Aryballos)

A.D. 1450/1532

Inca
South coast or southern highlands, Peru

On View: Arts of the Americas, Gallery 136

Culture: Inca
Title: Miniature Ceremonial Vessel (Aryballos)
Origin: Peru
Date: 1450–1532
Medium: Ceramic and pigment
Dimensions: 11.6 × 9.5 cm (4 9/16 × 3 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Kate S. Buckingham Endowment
Reference Number: 1955.2218

Richard F. Townsend, ed., The Ancient Americas: Art from Sacred Landscapes, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago/Prestel Verlag, 1992), cat. 85.
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, p. 373, cat. 349 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, The Ancient Americas: Art from Sacred Landscapes, Oct. 10, 1992–Jan. 3, 1993, cat. 85; traveled to Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Feb. 4–Apr. 18, 1993, and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, June 6–Aug. 15, 1993.

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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