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Vessel in the Shape of a Peccary
(Ancient Americas )
Terracotta is excellent for conveying sympathetically the earthbound, seemingly inert quality of this sleeping peccary (a wild pig native to Peru) plopped on the ground. Pre-Columbian potters often adapted distended animal shapes for vessels.
This modest piece, made for a middle or lower class burial, is from the Vicus culture of northern Peru.
Provenance
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Robert L. Beare, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1981, by gift.
Exhibitions
| 1995 | The Allure of Bronze. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. |
Geographies
Peru (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 6 1/2 × W: 5 × L: 9 1/16 in. (16.5 × 12.7 × 23 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Robert L. Beare, 1981
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
48.2453