Portrait Vessel of a Ruler-2

Culture
Moche
Title
Portrait Vessel of a Ruler
Place
Peruvian North Coast (Object made in)
Date
100 BCE–500 CE
Medium
Ceramic and pigment
Dimensions
35.6 × 24.1 cm (14 × 9 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Kate S. Buckingham Endowment
Reference Number
1955.2338
IIIF Manifest
https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/91620/manifest.json

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, Berlin then Durham, SC, and Hans Gaffron (1902–1979), Berlin then Chicago [correspondence and documentation of the Gaffron Collection in curatorial file]; sold to the Art Institute, 1955.