Jar in the Form of an Abstract Figure with Modeled Head and Wide Collar
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, 1958.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Literature
Published references
- B. J. Wassermann-San Blás, <em>Céramicas del Antiguo Perú de la Colección Wassermann-San Blás</em> (Casa Jacobo Peuser, 1938), 193, cat. 338 (ill.).
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