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Seated male portrait vessel

AD 100–450
Object PlacePeru
Medium/TechniqueEarthenware: orange, cream, and light brown slip paint
Dimensions22.9 x 10.7 x 13.9 cm (9 x 4 3/16 x 5 1/2 in.)
Credit LineBy exchange with the Peabody Museum, Harvard
Accession number50.248
On View
On view
ClassificationsCeramics
Collections
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)
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