Gourd-Shaped Blackware Jar with Modeled Monkey Handle

Lambayeque (North coast, Peru)

1000–1450

Medium

Ceramic and pigment

Classification

Ceramics

Dimensions

13.5 × 12.4 cm (5 3/16 × 4 7/8 in.)

Culture

Peruvian North Coast

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of the Americas

Credit line

Buckingham Fund

Rights

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

Who can see it

Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed

View at the Art Institute of Chicago

• Ceramics
• Animals
• 1000s
• Peru
• Black, white and grey