Figural Bottle with Death Mask

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CultureWari (Huari)

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Figural Bottle with Death Mask

Date650–900 AD

MediumEarthenware with slip

Dimensions8 3/8 × 5 1/2 in. diameter (21.3 × 14 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Alfred C. Glassell, Jr. Accessions Endowment Fund

Object number2014.675

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Department

Art of the Indigenous Americas

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CERAMICS

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 204]; purchased by MFAH, 2014.
Exhibition HistoryZentrum Heuried, Zürich, 1970.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

White sticker on bottom with handwritting: 18

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