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 |
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. |
Height | 20.32 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of Randolph Clay, 1912 |
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