Bottle with Incised Geometric Figure by Paracas
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Bottle with Incised Geometric Figure

Paracas · 650–150 BCE

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Bruno John Wassermann-San Blás Collection, Buenos Aires, Argentina, by 1938 [Wassermann-San Blás, 1938]; sold to Nathan Cummings (1896–1985), Chicago, 1954; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1960.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/4117/primitive-art-from-chicago-collections"><em>Primitive Art from Chicago Collections</em></a>, Nov. 16, 1960–Jan. 2, 1961, cat 55a.

Literature

Published references

  • Allen Wardwell, <em>Primitive Art from Chicago Collections</em>, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1960), n.p, cat. 55a, as <em>Effigy Bottle. Callango</em>.
  • Richard Townsend with Elizabeth Pope, <em>Indian Art of the Americas at the Art Institute of Chicago</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 2016), 287, cat. 231 (ill.).

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