Portrait bottle

A.D. 400–800

Object PlacePerú

Medium/TechniqueEarthenware: cream and red-brown slip paint

Dimensions23.1 x 10.5 x 10.8 cm (9 1/8 x 4 1/8 x 4 1/4 in.)

Credit LineBy exchange with the Peabody Museum, Harvard

Accession number50.247

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ClassificationsCeramics

Collections

Americas

ProvenanceAcquired in Peru by Dr. Samuel K. Lothrop between December 1940 and November 1944, probably purchased from a dealer; to the Peabody Museum of Harvard University in 1946; from the Peabody Museum of Harvard University to the MFA in exchange for unregistered material from the excavations at Kerma (Egypt) in 1950. (Accession Date: February 9, 1950)