Object Title
Vase Depicting Warriors Capturing Prisoners
Measurements
Diam. 43.8 cm (17 1/4 in.)
Creation Date
100 B.C./A.D. 500
Credit Line
Gift of Edward and Betty Harris
Museum Name
Culture
Country of Origin
Object Type
Materials / Techniques
Object URL
http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork-search/results/2004.1153
Provenance Information
Unknown owner; sold at auction by Sotheby's New York, New York to Edward and Betty Harris, Chicago, Illinois on May 19, 1987 [documentation in curatorial file]; forty percent interest in the work gifted to the Art Institute of Chicago in 2004; remaining sixty percent interest in the work gifted to the Art Institute of Chicago in 2015.
Exhibition Information
None
Publication Information
Sotheby's, Pre-Columbian Art Auction Catalogue, New York, Tuesday, May 19, 1987, cat. no. 16 (ill. detail of inner rim on front and back cover; full interior with object description).
Christopher B. Donnan and Donna McClelland, "Moche Fineline Painting: Its evolution and Its Artists" (UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, 1999), figure 4.105 (ill.; photograph and line drawings).
Anne Marie Hocquenghem, "Sacrifices and Ceremonial Calendars in Societies of the Central Andes: A Reconsideration" in The Art and Archaeology of the Moche: In Ancient Andean Society of the Peruvian North Coast, edited by S. Bourget and K. Jones (University of Texas Press, 2008), pg. 27, fig. 2.2 (line drawing of detail).
Christopher B. Donnan, "Moche State Religion: A Unifying Force in Moche Political Organization" in New Perspectives on Moche Political Organization, edited by Jeffrey Quilter and Luis Jamie Castillo B. (Dumbarton Oaks, 2010), fig. 12 (line drawing of detail).
Christopher B. Donnan and Donna McClelland, "Moche Fineline Painting: Its evolution and Its Artists" (UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, 1999), figure 4.105 (ill.; photograph and line drawings).
Anne Marie Hocquenghem, "Sacrifices and Ceremonial Calendars in Societies of the Central Andes: A Reconsideration" in The Art and Archaeology of the Moche: In Ancient Andean Society of the Peruvian North Coast, edited by S. Bourget and K. Jones (University of Texas Press, 2008), pg. 27, fig. 2.2 (line drawing of detail).
Christopher B. Donnan, "Moche State Religion: A Unifying Force in Moche Political Organization" in New Perspectives on Moche Political Organization, edited by Jeffrey Quilter and Luis Jamie Castillo B. (Dumbarton Oaks, 2010), fig. 12 (line drawing of detail).
Section of the AAMD Guidelines relied upon for the exception to 1970
Partial interest received prior to 2008
Explain why the object fits the exception set forth above
On November 8, 2004, Edward and Betty Harris entered into a written agreement with the Art Institute of Chicago. Under the terms of that agreement, Mr. and Mrs. Harris gave an immediate forty percent interest in the work to the Art Institute of Chicago and promised to give the remaining sixty percent interest in the work to the Art Institute at or before their deaths. Mr. and Mrs. Harris gifted the remaining sixty percent interest in the work to the Art Institute by deed of gift dated December 31, 2015.
The work augments the Art Institute’s permanent collection of Moche objects in its distinctive vessel form, exceptional quality of painted design, and unique narrative presentation of warfare. The Art Institute's Moche collection includes effigy vessels portraying warriors and captives, along with painted vessels that display abbreviated and allegoric references to warfare and human sacrifice. This vessel provides an unusually elucidating visual documentation of Moche warfare, including the preparation, combat, and capture of enemies, which will enhance the Art Institute's ability to explain one of the essential themes of Moche art and culture.
The work augments the Art Institute’s permanent collection of Moche objects in its distinctive vessel form, exceptional quality of painted design, and unique narrative presentation of warfare. The Art Institute's Moche collection includes effigy vessels portraying warriors and captives, along with painted vessels that display abbreviated and allegoric references to warfare and human sacrifice. This vessel provides an unusually elucidating visual documentation of Moche warfare, including the preparation, combat, and capture of enemies, which will enhance the Art Institute's ability to explain one of the essential themes of Moche art and culture.