Vessel of a Caped Woman

Vessel of a Caped Woman

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Vessel of a Caped Woman
CultureNasca
Titles
  • Vessel of a Caped Woman
Date100 BC–700 AD
PlaceSouth Coast, Peru
MediumEarthenware with slip
Dimensions8 × 7 1/4 dia. in. (20.3 × 18.4 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Isabel B. and Wallace S. Wilson
Object number91.311
Non exposé

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Department
Art of the Indigenous Americas
Object Type
Provenance[Anton Roecki, Munich]; [David Bernstein Fine Art, New York, until 1991]; purchased by MFAH, 1991.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscription: Inscribed in black ink on the bottom of the vessel:
"659"

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