Vessel portraying the natural world
Vessel portraying the natural world
Vessel portraying the natural world
Vessel portraying the natural world
Vessel portraying the natural world
Vessel portraying the natural world
Vessel portraying the natural world
Vessel portraying the natural world
Vessel portraying the natural world
Vessel portraying the natural world
Vessel portraying the natural world
Vessel portraying the natural world
Vessel portraying the natural world
Vessel portraying the natural world
Vessel portraying the natural world
Vessel portraying the natural world
Vessel portraying the natural world
Vessel portraying the natural world
Vessel portraying the natural world
Vessel portraying the natural world

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Art of the Ancient Americas

Vessel portraying the natural world,

330–430 CE

Nasca
Early Intermediate Period (Nasca phase 5)
2021-238

Information

Title
Vessel portraying the natural world
Dates

330–430 CE

Medium
Ceramic with polychrome slip-paint
Dimensions
12.5 × 21.8 × 10.2 cm (4 15/16 × 8 9/16 × 4 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Carl Otto von Kienbusch, Jr. Memorial Collection Fund
Object Number
2021-238
Place Made

South America, Peru, South coast

Culture
Nazca
Period
Early Intermediate period
Type
ceramics, vessels (containers)
Materials
slip, ceramic
Subject
foxes, animals, plants, birds, falcons, snakes

Joerg Haeberli, since March 27 1968; purchased by the Princeton University Art Museum, 2021.

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