Shungu Manga ("Heart-Shaped") Vessel with Anaconda Motif

Provenance

Marta Vargas (Jovita Marta Vargas Dagua), Puyo, Ecuador, 1985; sold to the Sacha Runa Research Foundation, Urbana, IL, 1985 [according to correspondence from Norman Whitten, President, Sacha Runa Research Foundation, in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2020.

Shungu Manga ("Heart-Shaped") Vessel with Anaconda Motif

Canelos Quichua

1985

Accession Number

256282

Medium

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

Dimensions

25.4 × 19.1 cm (10 × 7 1/2 in.)

Classification

N/A

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Arnold H. Crane Endowment Fund