Hunter effigy vessel
AD 800-1450
Object PlacePeru
Medium/TechniqueEarthenware with brown slip paint
DimensionsOverall: 41.9 × 25.4 × 26.7 cm (16 1/2 × 10 × 10 1/2 in.)
Credit LineHelen and Alice Colburn Fund
Accession number2015.2221
On View
On viewClassificationsVessels
Collections
ProvenanceAbout 1960s, moved with a private collection from Bolivia to Houston, TX [see note]; mid-1970s, sold from this private collection to Dr. Edward Heyne, Houston; May 14, 1991, anonymous (Heyne) sale, Sotheby’s, New York, lot 12, to a private collection, Florida; May 15, 2015, anonymous (private Florida collection) sale, Sotheby’s, New York, lot 5, to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 24, 2015)
NOTE:
According to information provided by Sotheby’s auction house, Dr. Heyne purchased the piece in the mid-1970s from a patient who had moved from Bolivia to Houston sometime in the 1960s, bringing her art collection with her.
NOTE:
According to information provided by Sotheby’s auction house, Dr. Heyne purchased the piece in the mid-1970s from a patient who had moved from Bolivia to Houston sometime in the 1960s, bringing her art collection with her.
A.D. 500–1550
300 B.C.–A.D. 300
A.D. 400–800
AD 100–450
A.D. 350–550
A.D. 700–800
A.D. 700–800
A.D. 800–1550
A.D. 700–850
A.D. 650–800
200 B.C.–A.D. 300
200 B.C.–A.D. 300