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Human-headed Jar with Two Leg Chambers

Human-headed Jar with Two Leg Chambers

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Human-headed Jar with Two Leg Chambers
CultureVicús
Titles
  • Human-headed Jar with Two Leg Chambers
Date200 BC–400 AD
PlacePiura Valley, Peru
MediumEarthenware with slip
Dimensions15 3/4 × 3 3/4 × 9 1/4 in. (40 × 9.5 × 23.5 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Object number67.5
Current Location
The Caroline Wiess Law Building
211M Jones Galleries
On view

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Provenance[André Emmerich (1924–2007) Gallery, New York, until 1967]; purchased by MFAH, 1967.
Published References Alan Lapiner, Pre-Columbian Art of South America (1976) p. 185, fig. 455.

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