Object Title
Hunter effigy vessel
Measurements
43.8 cm (17 1/4 in.)
Creation Date
AD 800-1450
Credit Line
Helen and Alice Colburn Fund
Museum Name
Culture
Country of Origin
Object Type
Materials / Techniques
Object URL
http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/hunter-effigy-vessel-621422
Provenance Information
About 1960s, moved with a private collection from Bolivia to Houston, TX [see note]; mid-1970s, sold from this private collection to Dr. Edward Heyne, Houston; May 14, 1991, anonymous (Heyne) sale, Sotheby’s, New York, lot 12, to a private collection, Florida; May 15, 2015, anonymous (private Florida collection) sale, Sotheby’s, New York, lot 5, to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 24, 2015)
NOTE:
According to information provided by Sotheby’s auction house, Dr. Heyne purchased the piece in the mid-1970s from a patient who had moved from Bolivia to Houston sometime in the 1960s, bringing her art collection with her.
NOTE:
According to information provided by Sotheby’s auction house, Dr. Heyne purchased the piece in the mid-1970s from a patient who had moved from Bolivia to Houston sometime in the 1960s, bringing her art collection with her.
Exhibition Information
None known.
Publication Information
None known.
Section of the AAMD Guidelines relied upon for the exception to 1970
Informed judgement that works were outside of the country of modern discovery before 1970
Explain why the object fits the exception set forth above
According to the auction house that sold this vessel, it came from the private collection of a Bolivian woman, who brought her collection to the U.S. when she moved to Houston in the 1960s.