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Fish Vessel

Fish Vessel

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Fish Vessel
Artist
CultureCupisnique
Titles
  • Fish Vessel
Date1800–400 BC
PlaceJequetepeque Valley, Peru
MediumEarthenware with slip
DimensionsOverall: 7 5/8 × 5 3/16 × 8 3/8 in. (19.4 × 13.2 × 21.3 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Alice Pratt Brown Museum Fund
Object number88.2
Current Location
The Caroline Wiess Law Building
211M Jones Galleries
On view

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Department
Art of the Indigenous Americas
Object Type
ProvenanceDr. Daniel Rifkin, New York, by 1972 [1]; purchased by [David Bernstein Fine Art, New York, by 1988]; purchased by MFAH, 1988.

[1] Letter dated April 17, 1987.

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