Storage Vessel (Tinaja or Asua Churana Manga) with Anaconda, Turtle, Tortoise and Iguana Motifs

Provenance

Estela Dagua (Jacinta Esthela Dagua Malaber, 1951–?), Puyo, Ecuador, 1987; sold to the Sacha Runa Research Foundation, Urbana, IL, 1987 [according to correspondence from Norman Whitten, President, Sacha Runa Research Foundation, in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2020.

Storage Vessel (Tinaja or Asua Churana Manga) with Anaconda, Turtle, Tortoise and Iguana Motifs

Canelos Quichua

1987

Accession Number

256280

Medium

Ceramic, pigment, and shinquillu lacquer, possibly from the Brazilian Elemi (Protium heptophyllum)

Dimensions

29.2 × 24.1 cm (11 1/2 × 9 1/2 in.)

Classification

N/A

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Arnold H. Crane Endowment Fund