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Roof ornament, ceramic church
Roof ornament, ceramic church
Roof ornament, ceramic church
Museum of International Folk Art
DepartmentLatin America

Roof ornament, ceramic church

NameRoof Ornament
Artist Artist unrecorded
Datec. 1958
Place madeQuinua, Ayacucho, Peru, South America
MediumCeramic, pigments
Dimensions30 7/8 × 16 3/4 × 13 in. (78.5 × 42.5 × 33 cm)
Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of the Girard Foundation Collection, A.1979.32.673
Object numberA.1979.32.673
Collections
DescriptionHand-built, white, brown and red church or cathedral with floral, linear designs. 2 towers with crowns, 2 belfries with clocks below center cross, arch with saint below, 4 spires, 6 figures in archway with raised pebble frontal.
Roof ornament, ceramic church
Artist unrecorded
c. 1958
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Artist unrecorded
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