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Jar with small loop handles

A.D. 400–500
Object PlacePerú
Medium/TechniqueEarthenware: light orange, orange, red, cream, gray, and brown slip paint
Dimensions14.6 x 12 cm (5 3/4 x 4 3/4 in.)
Credit LineAnonymous gift
Accession number2001.148
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Not on view
ClassificationsCeramics
Collections
ProvenanceBetween the early 1940s and late 1950s, probably acquired in Peru by Bernhard Kummel (b. 1919 - d. 1980), Cambridge, MA [see note]; late 1950s, sold by Bernhard Kummel to an anonymous collection; 2001, anonymous gift to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 21, 2001)

NOTE: The Boston Globe reported ("South America's Rainy Jungle Less Dangerous than Harvard Square," November 17, 1957) on the time Dr. Kummel, a Harvard professor of geology, spent in Peru. He and his wife are pictured holding Peruvian vessels from their collection.
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