Jar Shaped like an Curling Insect with Single Spout in the Form of a Human Head

Chimú (North coast, Peru)

1200–1450

Medium

Ceramic

Classification

Ceramics

Dimensions

15.2 × 26.7 × 25.7 cm (6 × 10 1/2 × 10 1/8 in.)

Culture

Peruvian North Coast

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of the Americas

Credit line

Gift of Nathan Cummings

Rights

Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.

Who can see it

Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

View at the Art Institute of Chicago

• Ceramics
• Animals
• People
• 1200s
• Peru
• Black, white and grey