Beaker with Geometric Textile Pattern

Creator Name

Nazca South coast, Peru;
Nasca

Cultural Context

Date

180 BCE–500 CE

Source

Art Institute of Chicago

About the Work

Art Institute of Chicago Object Description

This tall, wide-mouthed beaker is decorated with a variety of different geometric motifs, including stepped triangles, diagonal hatchering, triangles, and zig-zag patterns, arrayed in five tiers.

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Title

Beaker with Geometric Textile Pattern

Creator

Nazca South coast, Peru;
Nasca

Worktype

Vessel; earthenware; art of the americas; ceramics; vessel

Cultural Context

Material

Ceramic and pigment; ceramic; inorganic material

Dimensions

22 × 11 cm (8 5/8 × 4 5/16 in.)

Technique

Language

Date

180 BCE–500 CE

Provenance

Kate S. Buckingham Endowment; Eduard Gaffron (1861–1931), Lima, Peru, from 1892 to 1912, then Berlin, from 1912 [History of the Department report (Joanne Behrens, 1985) and correspondence in curatorial file]; by descent to his children Mercedes Gaffron (1908–1993), Berlin then Durham, NC, and Hans Gaffron (1902–1979), Berlin then Chicago [correspondence and documentation of the Gaffron Collection in curatorial file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1955.

Style Period

nazca; early intermediate period; Pre-Columbian; americas; Arts of the Americas; andean; andes

Rights

Public Domain

Inscription

Location

Nazca Valley

Source

Art Institute of Chicago

Subjects

super/natural

Topic

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