Beaker with Geometric Textile Pattern
Nasca (South coast, Peru)
180 BCE–500 CE
- Medium
- Ceramic and pigment
- Classification
- Ceramics
- Dimensions
- 22 × 11 cm (8 5/8 × 4 5/16 in.)
- Culture
- Nazca Valley
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Kate S. Buckingham Endowment
- 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
About this work
This tall, wide-mouthed beaker is decorated with a variety of different geometric motifs, including stepped triangles, diagonal hatchering, triangles, and zig-zag patterns, arrayed in five tiers.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
