Kero, Vase - 43531 | Collections

Native Name	Quero
Object Number:	43531
Current Location:	Collections Storage
Provenience:	Peru
Culture Area:	Andean
Period:	Colonial Period
Section:	American
Materials:	Wood Lacquer Pigment
Iconography:	Chicha Corn Beer Human Flower Fan
Height:	20.32 cm
Credit Line:	Gift of Randolph Clay, 1912

Description

Laquered kero with flat base and flared sides. Laquered scenes with Inca, hunched back servant, flowers, shade fan. Laquering = pigment added to maliable resin from a semi-domesticated plant from the Amazon. The resin is stretched thin and cut into desired shapes and then pasted onto the object. A clear laquer is applied over all of the cut work.

Current & Past Exhibitions:

Magnificent Objects (06 May 2004 - Mar 2005)	View Objects in Exhibition
44 Eyes in a Museum Storeroom ( Dec 2000 - 2001)	View Objects in Exhibition

Bibliography:

[Book] Quick, Jennifer. 2004. Magnificent Objects from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.. Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. ed. 1st. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 55, fig. 46	View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Article] Mason, John A. 1934. "Three Inca Wooden Cups". The University Museum Bulletin. Philadelphia. The University Museum. Vol. 5. no. 5. pg. 53, 55 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: pl. VIII	View Objects related to this Actual Citation