Azucarero

NamePair of Sugar Containers

Artist Artist unrecorded

Date1968

Place madeCochas Chico, Huancayo Province, Peru, South America

MediumGourd, dyes

Dimensions5 1/2 × 7 1/2 in. (13.97 × 19.05 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of the Girard Foundation Collection, A.1979.32.703VX

Object numberA.1979.32.703VX

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DescriptionPair of carved and incised gourd containers with cut out lids. The bodies depicting animals, people in Andean ponchos, plants with geometric decorated lids and rims. Red surface with pale yellow background, yellow, pink and blue details. Stems forms handles of zig-zag edged top.