Storage Vessel with "Bent" (Quingashca) Turtle and Tortoise Motifs

Provenance

Alegría Canelos, 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 "Bent" (Quingashca) Turtle and Tortoise Motifs

Canelos Quichua

1986

Accession Number

256284

Medium

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

Dimensions

21 × 16.5 cm (8 1/4 × 6 1/2 in.)

Classification

N/A

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Arnold H. Crane Endowment Fund