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Feline-Headed Figural Jar

Feline-Headed Figural Jar

Public Domain

Feline-Headed Figural Jar
Artist
CultureWari (Huari)
Titles
  • Feline-Headed Figural Jar
Date650–900 AD
MediumEarthenware with slip
Dimensions7 7/8 × 5 1/4 × 4 1/2 in. (20 × 13.3 × 11.4 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Alfred C. Glassell, Jr. Accessions Endowment
Object number2014.677
Current Location
The Caroline Wiess Law Building
209M Jones Galleries
Exposé

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Department
Art of the Indigenous Americas
Object Type
ProvenanceWilhelm Franz Reisner (d. 1957), Madrid, Seville, Lisbon, and Zürich, 1930s–1950s; by descent to his grandson, Wilhelm Hagmann, Zürich, by 1957–2014; [Sotheby's New York, May 16, 2014, New York, lot 208]; purchased by MFAH, 2014.
Exhibition HistoryZentrum Heuried, Zürich, 1970.
Published References José Antonio de Lavalle, Culturas Precolombinas: Huari-Colección Arte y Tesoros del Peru (Lima: Banco de Credito del Peru en la Cultura, 1984), pp. 161. Sotheby’s New York, May 16, 2014 catalog, lot 208. Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
White sticker on bottom with handwriting: 60

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Unknown Central and South American