Jar with Textile-Like Pattern and Handle in Form of an Animal

Provenance

Malcolm K. Whyte (died 1967), Milwaukee, WI, from 1957 [Parsons, “Peruvian Mortuary Art, “ Archaeology, 15, 3 (Autumn 1962) and Dianna K. Newbury, “Andean Archaeological Featherwork,” MA Thesis, University of Wisconsin-Madison (May 2014) for information about the Whyte Collection]; given to the Milwaukee Public Museum, 1960 or 1961 [correspondence from Milwaukee Public Museum, Apr. 25, 2002; MPM accession number A51480/18046; incoming permanent receipt RX3573, June 16, 1961, copies in curatorial object file, Arts of the Americas]; by exchange to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1961.

Jar with Textile-Like Pattern and Handle in Form of an Animal

Chancay

1000–1476

Accession Number

87115

Medium

Ceramic and pigment

Dimensions

N/A

Classification

earthenware

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Gift of Buckingham Fund and James W. Ellsworth