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Collection Online as of April 19, 2024

Vessel with Reclining Dog

Vessel with Reclining Dog

1470–1532
ceramic
Overall: 16.5 x 17.8 x 10 cm (6 1/2 x 7 x 3 15/16 in.)
J.H. Wade Trust Fund 2021.129
Location: 232 Andean

Did You Know?

This vessel represents a Peruvian hairless dog who has recently given birth.

Description

This vessel represents a Peruvian hairless dog who has recently given birth and seems to be taking a break from maternal obligations. The meanings of such dogs may be connected to the trade networks that brought them to Peru from Mexico in the late pre-Hispanic period. Perhaps these foreign ties made them prestige animals whose breeding engendered further status for the owner.
  • Before the late 1960s-1994
    Margrith Brenner, Zurich, Switzerland, sold to a Private Collector
    1994-2021
    Private Collector, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    2021-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Princeton University, and Jay I. Kislak Reference Collection (Library of Congress). In Celebration: Works of Art from the Collections of Princeton Alumni and Friends of the Art Museum, Princeton University. [Princeton, N.J.]: The Museum, 1997. p. 102, cat. 106
  • Princeton University’s Art Museum (1997-2020).
  • {{cite web|title=Vessel with Reclining Dog|url=false|author=|year=1470–1532|access-date=19 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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