Handle Spout Vessel in Form of a Female and Skeletal Figure in an Erotic Embrace

Creator Name

Moche North coast, Peru;
Moche

Cultural Context

Date

100 BCE–500 CE

Source

Art Institute of Chicago

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Title

Handle Spout Vessel in Form of a Female and Skeletal Figure in an Erotic Embrace

Creator

Moche North coast, Peru;
Moche

Worktype

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

Cultural Context

Material

Ceramic and pigment; ceramic; inorganic material

Dimensions

H.: 20.3 cm (8 in.)

Technique

Language

Date

100 BCE–500 CE

Provenance

Buckingham Fund; Eduard Gaffron (1861–1931), Lima, Peru, from 1892 to 1912, then Berlin, from [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 S.C. 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

Peruvian North Coast

Source

Art Institute of Chicago

Subject

Topic

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