Feline-Headed Figural Jar

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Artist Unknown Central and South American

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

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Department

Art of the Indigenous Americas

Object Type

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 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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