Single Spout Rectangular Vessel with Sculpted Frog and Textile-like Motifs

Arts of the Americas

A.D. 500/800

Nievería
Central coast, Peru

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Culture: Nieveria
Title: Single Spout Rectangular Vessel with Sculpted Frog and Textile-like Motifs
Place: Nievería (Object made in)
Date: Made 500 CE–800 CE
Medium: Ceramic and pigment
Dimensions: 16.5 × 14.6 cm (6 1/2 × 5 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Kate S. Buckingham Endowment
Reference Number: 1955.2234
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Eduard Gaffron (1861–1931), Lima, Peru, from 1892 to 1912, then Berlin, from 1912 [History of the Department report (Joanne Behrens, 1985) and correspondence in curatorial file]; by descent to his children Mercedes Gaffron, Berlin then Durham, SC, 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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