Vessel in the Shape of a Bird
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/4015/animal-sculpture-in-pre-columbian-art"><em>Animal Sculpture in Pre-Columbian Art</em></a>, Oct. 12, 1957–Feb. 2, 1958, 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), 136, cat. 239 (ill.).
- Alan R. Sawyer, <em>Animal Sculpture in Pre-Columbian Art</em>, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1957), 35 (ill.).
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