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Vessel with Figure Seated Inside a Structure by Chavín — VisualArtsDB

Vessel with Figure Seated Inside a Structure

Vessel with Figure Seated Inside a Structure

-850–-750

Medium: Ceramic and pigment
Dimensions: 25.4 × 13 × 13 cm (10 × 5 1/8 × 5 1/8 in.)
Genre: earthenware
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

Styles

chavín horizon

Tags

americassupernaturalarchitecturefigures (representations)modeling (forming)andeanvesselsearthenwarechavín horizonvesselpainting (image making)ceramicsearly horizoninorganic materialArts of the AmericastemplePre-Columbianhousesandesceramicart of the americas

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