Vessel in the Form of a Fisherman in a Reed Boat by Moche
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Vessel in the Form of a Fisherman in a Reed Boat

Moche · 100 BCE–500 CE

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, 1957.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/7966/the-ancient-americas-art-from-sacred-landscapes"><em>The Ancient Americas: Art from Sacred Landscapes</em></a>, Oct. 10, 1992–Jan. 3, 1993, cat. 176, as <em>Vessel in the Form of Reed Boat</em>; Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Feb. 4–April 18, 1993; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, June 6–Aug. 15, 1993.

Literature

Published references

  • B. J. Wassermann-San Blás, <em>Céramicas del Antiguo Perú de la Colección Wassermann-San Blás</em> (Casa Jacobo Peuser, 1938), 227, cat. 400 (ill.).
  • Richard Townsend, ed., <em>The Ancient Americas: Art from Sacred Landscapes</em>, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1992), 379, cat. 176, as <em>Vessel in the Form of Reed Boat</em>.
  • Dorothy Chaplik, Latin American Arts and Cultures (Davis Publications, 2000) (ill.).
  • Peter Robertshaw and Jill Rubalcaba, The Early Human World (Oxford University Press, 2004).
  • Richard Townsend with Elizabeth Pope, <em>Indian Art of the Americas at the Art Institute of Chicago</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 2016), 325, cat. 291 (ill.).

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