Vessel with Two Mythical Creatures and Human Heads

Vessel with Two Mythical Creatures and Human Heads

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Vessel with Two Mythical Creatures and Human Heads
CultureNasca
Titles
  • Vessel with Two Mythical Creatures and Human Heads
Date100 BC–700 AD
PlaceSouth Coast, Peru
MediumEarthenware with slip
Dimensions6 3/4 × 7 dia. in. (17.1 × 17.8 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Alice Pratt Brown Museum Fund
Object number86.392
Not on view

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Department
Art of the Indigenous Americas
Object Type
Provenance[The Merrin Gallery, Inc., New York, until 1986]; purchased by MFAH, 1986.

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