Art Institute of Chicago

Beaker with Geometric Textile Pattern

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Date: 180 BCE–500 CE
Medium: Ceramic and pigment
Culture: Nazca Valley
Department: Arts of the Americas
Institution: Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID: 91304

This tall, wide-mouthed beaker is decorated with a variety of different geometric motifs, including stepped triangles, diagonal hatchering, triangles, and zig-zag patterns, arrayed in five tiers.

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Credit line: Kate S. Buckingham Endowment
Provenance: Eduard Gaffron (1861–1931), Lima, Peru, from 1892 to 1912, then Berlin, from 1912 [History of the Department report (Joanne Behrens, 1985) and correspondence in curatorial file]; by descent to his children Mercedes Gaffron (1908–1993), Berlin then Durham, NC, and Hans Gaffron (1902–1979), Berlin then Chicago [correspondence and documentation of the Gaffron Collection in curatorial file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1955.

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Object type: AAT300386308

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