MIA Andean Objects

Vessel

Artist Unknown (Peru) — Wed, 29 May 2013 03:40:27 -0400

Title	Vessel
Artist	Artist Unknown (Peru)
Date
Institution	Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Location	On view at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, G260

Double-spout vase with a band carrying two Pumas painted in polychrome on a white ground. Note the spotted body of the Puma and the long projecting tongue, characteristic of this beast in Nazca pottery and textiles.

Beaker

Artist Unknown (Peru) — Wed, 29 May 2013 04:43:56 -0400

Title	Beaker
Artist	Artist Unknown (Peru)
Date	100 B.C.-A.D. 600
Institution	Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Location	Not on view.

Beaker with painted frieze of long-necked white birds and snakes. Rounded bottom, stand.

Bowl with Swimmer Motifs

Artist Unknown (Nazca) — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 02:01:39 -0500

Title	Bowl with Swimmer Motifs
Artist	Artist Unknown (Nazca)
Date	100 B.C.-A.D. 600
Institution	Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Location	Not on view.

Spherical Jar decorated with a horizontal band showing two figures against a background of conventionalized lines representing water. Polychrome painting. Rounded bottom, stand.

Double spout jar

Artist Unknown (Peru) — Wed, 29 May 2013 02:05:06 -0400

Title	Double spout jar
Artist	Artist Unknown (Peru)
Date
Institution	Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Location	Not on view.

Polychrome Round Pot with double spout linked by bridge; design shows large pelican about to eat 3 small black and white killer whales on red background

Vessel

Artist Unknown (Nazca) — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 02:01:14 -0500

Title	Vessel
Artist	Artist Unknown (Nazca)
Date	100 B.C.-600 A.D.
Institution	Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Location	On view at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, G260

Pot in form of Fish with a double spout handle rising from the back. Slight modelling on head, tail, and fin area. Other features painted in grey, black, yellow, red and white. Broken at tail; cracked around head.

Vessel

Artist Unknown (Nazca) — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 02:21:24 -0400

Title	Vessel
Artist	Artist Unknown (Nazca)
Date	1st century B.C.-A.D. 6th century
Institution	Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Location	Not on view.

Double-spout vase painted in polychrome with two couchant winged figures. The heads wear an elaborate coiled headdress tipped with plant forms that spring from other parts of the body and from the serpent staff held in left hand of figure. Painted face with long projecting tongue. Wings of figures are decorated with human heads and terminate in feathers.

Vessel

Artist Unknown (Nazca) — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 02:15:24 -0400

Title	Vessel
Artist	Artist Unknown (Nazca)
Date	100 B.C.-A.D. 600
Institution	Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Location	On view at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, G260

Double spout water jar decorated in polychrome with two large fishes in their mouths. Frieze of peppers below.

Effigy vessel

Artist Unknown (Peru) — Wed, 29 May 2013 04:33:56 -0400

Title	Effigy vessel
Artist	Artist Unknown (Peru)
Date	100 B.C.-A.D. 600
Institution	Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Location	Not on view.

Jar in the form of a man's head painted in polychrome to represent a mummy mask. Top of head draped in a turban. Rounded bottom, stand.

Large cup

Artist Unknown (Peru) — Wed, 29 May 2013 04:01:26 -0400

Title	Large cup
Artist	Artist Unknown (Peru)
Date	100 B.C.-A.D. 600
Institution	Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Location	Not on view.

Large cup or bowl with slightly flared mouth and all-over design of checked and plain squares about 1/2 in. in area alternating in rows around sides. Such purely geometrical designs are rare in Nazca pottery.

Vessel in the form of a Duck

Artist Unknown (Moche) — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 02:01:52 -0500

Title	Vessel in the form of a Duck
Artist	Artist Unknown (Moche)
Date	1st-8th century
Institution	Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Location	Not on view.

red clay vessel decorated in cream and red; C-shaped handle from duck's head to back, with a spout at center

Vessel

Artist Unknown (Moche) — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 02:01:11 -0400

Title	Vessel
Artist	Artist Unknown (Moche)
Date	200-600
Institution	Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Location	On view at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, G260

Stirrup-handle jar in the form of an owl with a fat body. The face, plastically rendered, is painted buff color; the rest of the body is red and burnished.

Vessel

Artist Unknown (Moche) — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 02:01:41 -0400

Title	Vessel
Artist	Artist Unknown (Moche)
Date	5th-6th century
Institution	Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Location	Not on view.

Pot in the form of a warrior in full regalia. Painted details on costume and face.

Vessel

Artist Unknown (Peru) — Wed, 29 May 2013 03:54:15 -0400

Title	Vessel
Artist	Artist Unknown (Peru)
Date	400-599
Institution	Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Location	On view at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, G260

Jug, stirrup handle, painted.with a design of two running messengers, in full regalia, carrying weapons and wearing elaborate puma-head helmets. The area between the warriors is filled with the spreading wints fanning out behind each body. The design is in rust red on a cream slip, and the red is used on a series of double lines decorating the spout and the stirrup handle. Handle repaired.Something inside of jug, perhaps loose debris.

V

Artist Unknown (M) — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 04:13:54 -0400

Title	V
Artist	Artist Unknown (M)
Date	c
Institution	Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Location	Not on view.

Vessel with Lobster Motif

Artist Unknown (Peru) — Wed, 29 May 2013 03:48:30 -0400

Title	Vessel with Lobster Motif
Artist	Artist Unknown (Peru)
Date	400-499
Institution	Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Location	Not on view.

Stirrup-handle jar with a crab modelled in full relief on top. The crab is painted in reddish brown with details in cream on a cream slip ground. Lower part of jar painted in the same reddish brown and burnished.

Vessel

Artist Unknown (Moche) — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 04:31:02 -0500

Title	Vessel
Artist	Artist Unknown (Moche)
Date	5th-6th century
Institution	Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Location	Not on view.

Stirrup-handle jar with painted design of a mythical creature, half fish, half jaguar, in rust red on the panel of cream slip covering one half of the jar.

Globular vessel

Artist Unknown (Peru) — Wed, 29 May 2013 02:15:19 -0400

Title	Globular vessel
Artist	Artist Unknown (Peru)
Date
Institution	Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Location	Not on view.

globular vessel, flat base, stirrup with centrally located vertical spout; 2 raised deer figures on cream slip background; base, deer, and spouts polished red clay

Pot

Artist Unknown (Peru) — Wed, 29 May 2013 03:40:03 -0400

Title	Pot
Artist	Artist Unknown (Peru)
Date
Institution	Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Location	Not on view.

Black pot with double spout handle at top. In the side panels, two foxes in relief on a ground of all-over granular dots in relief.

Ear spool

Artist Unknown (Peru) — Wed, 29 May 2013 02:42:00 -0400

Title	Ear spool
Artist	Artist Unknown (Peru)
Date	1150-1450
Institution	Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Location	On view at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, G260

Ear studs, pair, of hammered and engraved gold. The concave disks iwth beaded edges are decorated with an applied motif bearing four figures. Above, a demi-god with elaborate aureole headdress riding on a bar borne by other three figures. In one hand he holds a beaker-cup; in the other a bag adorned with loose bangles. Two of the lower figures wear modified aureole headdresses and carry beakers. All are half human, half beast. The bar on which the demi-god rides is finished at the ends with demon heads. Loose bangles are variously applied in the design. The tubes of the ear studs are decorated with engraved bands of cats and birds, and soldered to the backs of discs.

Panel

Artist Unknown (Peru) — Wed, 29 May 2013 04:56:33 -0400

Title	Panel
Artist	Artist Unknown (Peru)
Date
Institution	Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Location	Not on view.

large piece of dark blue lace; mounted on gold burlap; framed and glazed

B

Artist Unknown (I) — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 03:51:12 -0400

Title	B
Artist	Artist Unknown (I)
Date	1
Institution	Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Location	On view at the M,

Kero

Artist Unknown (Peru) — Wed, 29 May 2013 02:10:54 -0400

Title	Kero
Artist	Artist Unknown (Peru)
Date	c. 1470-1560
Institution	Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Location	On view at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, G260

A Colonial Wood Beaker, A.D.1470-1560 of flaring shape painted in ochre, reddish orange and pale green with a procession of weapon-bearing Inca dignitaries, each clothed in a cape and feathered headdress, followed by two European-attired personages.

Qero (kero)

Artist Unknown (Peru) — Wed, 29 May 2013 03:57:46 -0400

Title	Qero (kero)
Artist	Artist Unknown (Peru)
Date	1300-1550
Institution	Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Location	On view at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, G260

cup shape with flaring mouth; lightly incised decoration, painted in green, tan, orange and off-white; geometric and floral designs with man leading a pack animal and a woman following around mouth

Urpu (Storage Jar)

Artist Unknown (Inka (Inca)) — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 02:21:26 -0400

Title	Urpu (Storage Jar)
Artist	Artist Unknown (Inka (Inca))
Date	15th century
Institution	Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Location	On view at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, G260

Jar, aryballos type, with two handles near base. A diminutive animal head in relief appears at the base of the neck. The front of the body is decorated with vertical panels separated by narrow bands, painted with lozenge and sawtooth motifs in red, black, mauve and white. The flaring neck is painted with horizontal bands of elongated lozenges in red and black, and under the rim is a border of reciprocal sawtooth pattern in the same colors. The back of the jar is painted brick red with a band of interlocking 'X' forms extending half-way around the shoulders.Aryballos (MWS)

MIA Andean Objects

Vessel

Vessel

Beaker

Beaker

100 B.C.-A.D. 600

Bowl with Swimmer Motifs

Bowl with Swimmer Motifs

100 B.C.-A.D. 600

Double spout jar

Double spout jar

Vessel

Vessel

100 B.C.-600 A.D.

Vessel

Vessel

1st century B.C.-A.D. 6th century

Vessel

Vessel

100 B.C.-A.D. 600

Effigy vessel

Effigy vessel

100 B.C.-A.D. 600

Large cup

Large cup

100 B.C.-A.D. 600

Vessel in the form of a Duck

Vessel in the form of a Duck

1st-8th century

Vessel

Vessel

200-600

Vessel

Vessel

5th-6th century

Vessel

Vessel

400-599

V

V

c

Vessel with Lobster Motif

Vessel with Lobster Motif

400-499

Vessel

Vessel

5th-6th century

Globular vessel

Globular vessel

Pot

Pot

Ear spool

Ear spool

1150-1450

Panel

Panel

B

B

1

Kero

Kero

c. 1470-1560

Qero (kero)

Qero (kero)

1300-1550

Urpu (Storage Jar)

Urpu (Storage Jar)

15th century