Handle Spout Vessel with Relief Depicting a Standing Figure, Holding Farming Tools
Moche · 100 BCE–500 CE
Provenance
Ownership history
- 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, 1957.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/3844/peruvian-pottery-and-weaving-of-ancient-date-nathan-cummings-collection-formerly-the-wassermann-san-blas-collection"><em>Peruvian Pottery and Weaving of an Ancient Date, Nathan Cummings Collection, formerly the Wassermann-San Blas Collection</em></a>, June 28, 1954–Jan. 3, 1955, no cat. no.
Literature
Published references
- B. J. Wassermann-San Blás, <em>Céramicas del Antiguo Perú de la Colección Wassermann-San Blás</em> (Casa Jacobo Peuser, 1938), 20, cat. 28 (ill.).
- Alan R. Sawyer, et al., <em>The Nathan Cummings Collection of Ancient Peruvian Art (Formerly Wassermann-San Blas Collection): Handbook</em>, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1954), 10 (ill.).
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