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Collections

Vessel100 BCE–600 CE

On view:
Geffen Galleries, South American Symbolic Universes
Ceramic vessel with hourglass profile, painted with a stylized frontal humanoid figure in terracotta, dark brown, and cream, surrounded by geometric and organic motifs
Ceramic flared bowl with polychrome slip-painted decoration; a frontal anthropomorphic figure with a triangular head, outstretched arms, and clawed feet, rendered in red, brown, tan, and cream against a dark red ground with repeating geometric and organic motifs encircling the vessel.
Title
Vessel
Culture
Nasca
Place Made
Peru, South Coast
Date Made
100 BCE–600 CE
Medium
Polychrome ceramic
Dimensions
3 x 4 in. (7.62 x 10.16 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Nasli M. Heeramaneck
Accession Number
M.73.48.38
Classification
Ceramics
Collecting Area
Art of the Ancient Americas