"Kero" (Ceremonial Drinking Vessel)
Artist
Unknown
Datecirca 1000–1476
MediumGold alloy
Dimensionsheight, width, and depth: 9 3/4 × 7 5/8 × 7 5/8 in. (24.8 × 19.4 × 19.4 cm)
ClassificationsMetal
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina
Object number74.1.3
On View
On view"Gold Before Columbus." Los Angeles County Museum, March 19-May 15, 1964, cat. pp. 68-71.
"Recent Acquisitions," (exhibition catalogue) North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 13, nos. 1 and 2 (1975), cat. no. 267.
Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (b-w) 80.
Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 63.
Exhibition HistoryRichmond, VA, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, “Masterpieces from the North Carolina Museum of Art,” March 11-April 13, 1975.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “Recent Acquisitions,” November 23, 1975-February 1, 1976, cat. no. 267.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Becoming the NCMA: 10 Decades of Collecting, 1924-2022," June 11-August 21, 2022.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present. Object Rights Statement
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