Altar Vessel
Gur · Early/mid–20th century
Provenance
Ownership history
- Gilbert Ouadrago, Burkina Faso, by 1998; sold to Douglas Dawson Gallery, Chicago, Ill., 1998; sold to the Art Institute, 1998.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, For Hearth and Altar: African Ceramics from the Keith Achepohl Collection, Dec. 3, 2005–Feb. 20, 2006, cat. 30.
Literature
Published references
- Kathleen Bickford Berzock, For Hearth and Altar: African Ceramics from the Keith Achepohl Collection (The Art Institute and Yale University Press, 2005), pp. 72-73.
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