Vessel with Abstract Feline and Falcon-Head Spout by Paracas
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Vessel with Abstract Feline and Falcon-Head Spout

Paracas · 650–150 BCE

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Pablo Soldi, Ica, Peru [Wardwell 1965, pl. 8]. Bruno John Wassermann-San Blás Collection, Buenos Aires, Argentina, by 1954; 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 55f.
  • Arts Club of Chicago, <em>High Culture in the Americas before 1500</em>, Nov. 15–Dec. 31, 1982, cat. 97.

Literature

Published references

  • Allen Wardwell, <em>Primitive Art from Chicago Collections</em>, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1960), n.p, cat. 55f (ill.), as <em>Double spout and bridge bottle. Ocucaje</em>.
  • Alan R. Sawyer, "Paracas and Nazca Iconography," in <em>Essays in Pre-Columbian Art and Archaeology</em> (Harvard University Press, 1961), 269–298, fig. 6i (ill. drawing), <a href="https://archive.org/details/essaysinprecolum0000unse">https://archive.org/details/essaysinprecolum0000unse</a>.
  • Dorothy Menzel, John H. Rowe, and Lawrence E. Dawson, The Paracas Pottery of Ica: A Study in Style and Time 50 (University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, 1964), 75, as <em>hawk-head bottle</em>.
  • Allen Wardwell, <em>Primitive Art in the Collections of the Art Institute of Chicago</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 1965), n.p., pl. 8 (ill.), as <em>Double Spout Feline Bottle</em>.
  • Everett McNear, <em>High Culture in the Americas before 1500</em>, exh. cat. (Arts Club Chicago, 1982), 40-41, cat. 97 (ill.)
  • 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. 230 (ill.).

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