Pan Pipe

Creator Name

Nazca South coast, Peru;
Nasca

Cultural Context

Date

180 BCE–500 CE

Source

Art Institute of Chicago

Work details

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Title

Pan Pipe

Creator

Nazca South coast, Peru;
Nasca

Worktype

Decorative Arts; earthenware; american decorative arts; art of the americas; ceramics; pipe; decorative arts

Cultural Context

Material

Ceramic and pigment; clay; inorganic material

Dimensions

12.1 × 11.4 cm (4 3/4 × 4 1/2 in.)

Technique

modeling (forming)

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; andes; Arts of the Americas; andean

Rights

Public Domain

Inscription

Location

Peru

Source

Art Institute of Chicago

Subjects

musical instruments

Topic