Blackware Narrow Neck Jar with Shoulder Impressed with Birds

Provenance

B. J. Wassermann-San Blás (born c. 1874), Buenos Aires, by 1938 [Wassermann-San Blás, 1938]; sold to Nathan Cummings (1896–1985), Chicago, 1954; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1957.

Blackware Narrow Neck Jar with Shoulder Impressed with Birds

Chimú

1000–1400

Accession Number

6891

Medium

Ceramic and pigment

Dimensions

10.5 × 11.4 cm (4 1/8 × 4 1/2 in.)

Classification

blackware (black basaltes)

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Gift of Nathan Cummings