Vessel with Humans, Skeletons, Owls, Birds, Pumas, Seals, and Frogs

100 B.C./A.D. 500

Moche
North coast, Peru

Status: On View, Gallery 136
Department: Arts of the Americas

Culture: Moche
Title: Vessel with Humans, Skeletons, Owls, Birds, Pumas, Seals, and Frogs
Place: Peruvian North Coast (Object made in)
Date: 100 BCE–500 CE
Medium: Ceramic and pigment
Dimensions: 24.1 × 21 cm (9 1/2 × 8 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Kate S. Buckingham Endowment
Reference Number: 1955.2319
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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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