An Inca Terracotta Llama Head Vessel

Circa 1400-1520 A.D.

Height 8 inches (20.32 cm).

Property from a Private Collection, Chicago, Illinois

Provenance:

Alan Sawyer, AIC Curator of Primitive Arts, 1955.

James and Marilyn Alsdorf, Chicago, acquired from the above, 9 February 1956.

Exhibited:

Chicago, Illinois, Art Institute of Chicago, Animal Sculpture in Pre-Columbian Art, 1957.

Published:

Art Institute of Chicago, Animal Sculpture in Pre-Columbian Art, 1957, p. 39 (illus).

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Antiquities, Pre-Columbian and Ethnographic Art

An Inca Terracotta Llama Head Vessel

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