Small Vessel with Turtle, Tortoise, and Anaconda Motifs

Provenance

Delicia Dagua (1957–?), Campo Alegre, Ecuador, 1979; sold to the Sacha Runa Research Foundation, Urbana, IL, 1979 [according to correspondence from Norman Whitten, President, Sacha Runa Research Foundation, in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2020.

Small Vessel with Turtle, Tortoise, and Anaconda Motifs

Canelos Quichua

1979

Accession Number

256283

Medium

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

Dimensions

22.9 × 19.1 cm (9 × 7 1/2 in.)

Classification

N/A

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Arnold H. Crane Endowment Fund