Bowl with Molded Nude Female Figure in the Interior

Creator Name

Moche North coast, Peru;
Moche

Cultural Context

Date

Source

Art Institute of Chicago

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Title

Bowl with Molded Nude Female Figure in the Interior

Creator

Moche North coast, Peru;
Moche

Worktype

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

Cultural Context

Material

Ceramic and pigment; ceramic; inorganic material; paint; coating (material)

Dimensions

9.5 × 26.7 cm (3 3/4 × 10 1/2 in.)

Technique

Language

Date

Made: 100 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

moche; mochica; early intermediate period; Pre-Columbian; americas; Arts of the Americas; andean; andes; south american

Rights

Public Domain

Inscription

Location

Moche Valley

Source

Art Institute of Chicago

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