DepartmentLatin America

Flask

NameBottle

Maker Mamerto Sanchez Cardenas (Peruvian, born 1942)

Datec. 1958

Place madeQuinua, Ayacucho, Peru, South America

MediumCeramic, slip

Dimensions10 13/16 × 10 5/8 × 1 3/16 in. (27.5 × 27 × 3 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of the Girard Foundation Collection, A.1979.32.134

Object numberA.1979.32.134

Collections

Andean Folk Art

DescriptionHand-built, coated with red slip, details painted with white slip. Floral motif around bottom of skirt, white dots on blouse, braids, high crown hat with opening in top. Holds bottle and bowls in hand.

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Flask

Mamerto Sanchez Cardenas

c. 1958

Bottles

Mamerto Sanchez Cardenas

c. 1958

Dancers

Mamerto Sanchez Cardenas

c. 1958

Bull

Mamerto Sanchez Cardenas

c. 1958

Bottles

Artist Not Recorded

c. 1958

Female Figure

Anita Lowden

c. 1960

Retablo with Fiesta, Casuts Fruit Picking, Blessing of the Animals and Nativity Scenes

Jesús Urbano Cardenas

c. 1985

BOWL

CA 1960, STAFF

Angels

Leoncio Tineo Ochoa

c. 1958

Storyteller

Helen Cordero

1964

Serving plate

Artist Not Recorded

c. 1960

Pot

Laurencita Herrera

c. 1960