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

ClassificationsArt of the Americas

Jar with Male Holding Espingo Seeds

AAT Object Form/FunctionJar

AAT Object Form/FunctionEffigies (general portraits)

Place CreatedPeru, South America

CultureMoche

PeriodEarly Intermediate

Date1-650 CE

MediumCeramic

Credit LineGift of William C. and Carol W. Thibadeau

Dimensions11 1/2 x 7 1/16 in. (29.2 x 18 cm)

Object number1989.008.074

Exhibition HistoryMCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 13, 2002 - June 2012
'For I am the Black Jaguar': Shamanic Visionary Experience in Ancient American Art, Michael C. Carlos Museum, September 5, 2012 - January 5, 2013
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, February 9, 2013 - May 27, 2022
MCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, August 1, 2022
Published ReferencesRebecca 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), 227, figure 516.

ProvenanceEx coll. William (1920-2002) and Carol (1921-2019) Thibadeau, Atlanta, Georgia, purchased from Jaime Levy, Leicester, England, July 1977.

Status

On view

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