© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University. Photo by Michael McKelvey.

ClassificationsArt of the Americas

Spouted Vessel with Figure and Grain Storehouses

AAT Object Form/FunctionVessels (containers)

Place CreatedPeru, South America

CultureRecuay

PeriodEarly Intermediate

Date1-650 CE

MediumCeramic

Credit LineGift of William C. and Carol W. Thibadeau

Dimensions8 1/4 x 6 1/2 in. (20.9 x 16.5 cm)

Object number1988.012.005

Exhibition HistoryPre-Columbian Art from the Collections of Paul A. Clifford and William C. Thibadeau, The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, February 13 - April 4, 1971
Pre-Columbian Art in Southern Collections, Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, Alabama, September 9 - October 28, 1979
Seeing with New Eyes: Pre-Columbian Art from the Thibideau Collection, Emory University Museum of Art and Archaeology, March 4 - October 13, 1992
Five Continents-Nine Millennia, Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport, International Concourse E, Atlanta, Georgia, March 1995 - November 1996
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 13, 2002 - June 2012
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, February 9, 2013 - March 13, 2019
MCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, July 2, 2019 - Present
Published ReferencesPre-Columbian Art from the Collections of Paul A. Clifford and William C. Thibadeau (Atlanta: High Museum of Art, 1971), plate XXXV.
Carolyn H. Wood, Pre-Columbian Art in Southern Collections (Huntsville: Huntsville Museum of Art, 1979), 40, 49, number 100.
Rebecca Stone-Miller, Art of the Andes: From Chavin to Inca (London: Thames & Hudson, 2002), 89, figure 71.
Rebecca Stone-Miller, Seeing With New Eyes: Highlights of the Michael C. Carlos Museum Collection of Art of the Ancient Americas (Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum, 2002), 223, figure 508.
George Lau, Andean Expressions: Art and Archaeology of the Recuay Culture (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2011).
George Lau, The Work of Surfaces: Object Worlds and Techniques of Enhancement in the Ancient Andes, Journal of Material Culture 15 (2010): 259-86.
Rebecca Stone, Art of the Andes: From Chavin to Inca. 3rd Edition (London: Thames & Hudson, 2012), 95, figure 74.

ProvenanceEx coll. William (1920-2002) and Carol (1921-2019) Thibadeau, Atlanta, Georgia, purchased January 1969.

Status

On view

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