Storage Vessel with Anaconda Motifs Embedded in Iguana Motifs

Provenance

Gloria Machoa, Puyo, Ecuador, 1986; sold to the Sacha Runa Research Foundation, Urbana, IL, 1986 [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 with Anaconda Motifs Embedded in Iguana Motifs

Canelos Quichua

1986

Accession Number

256285

Medium

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

Dimensions

20.3 × 19.1 cm (8 × 7 1/2 in.)

Classification

N/A

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Arnold H. Crane Endowment Fund