
Portrait Vessel
Kate S. Buckingham Endowment Fund
Catalogue
- Year
- 600
- Dimensions
- 34.7 × 20.6 × 22.6 cm (13 11/16 × 8 1/8 × 8 15/16 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Moche
Artist

Ceramics
The Moche civilization flourished in northern Peru from about 100 to 800 AD, during the Regional Development Epoch. The capital of a Southern Moche polity was near present-day Moche, Trujillo, Peru, with several other, possibly independent, regions under Moche influence.
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Record
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- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
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- Status
- verified





