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Storage Jar (Urpu)

Storage Jar (Urpu)

Public Domain

Artist
CultureInca (Inka)
Titles
  • Storage Jar (Urpu)
Date1400–1532 AD
Possible placePeru
Possible placeChile
Possible placeBolivia
Possible placeEcuador
MediumEarthenware with slip
DimensionsOverall: 12 1/4 × 9 3/4 × 9 in. (31.1 × 24.8 × 22.9 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Alfred C. Glassell, Jr.
Object number2007.1201
Current Location
The Caroline Wiess Law Building
209M Jones Galleries
On view

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Department
Art of the Indigenous Americas, Glassell Collection
Object Type
ProvenanceArundel Collection, Southern California, from the 1960s; [Leonard Kalina Fine Arts, by 2007]; purchased by MFAH, 2007.

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900–200 BC
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100 BC–800 AD
Gold
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