DepartmentLatin America

Flight into Egypt

NameFigure Group

Maker Leoncio Tineo Ochoa (Peruvian, 1924 - 1996)

Datec. 1958

Place madeHuanta, Ayacucho, Peru, South America

MediumCeramic, slip

Dimensions8 15/16 × 2 11/16 × 5 7/8 in. (22.7 × 6.9 × 14.9 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of the Girard Foundation Collection, A.1979.32.433

Object numberA.1979.32.433

Collections

Latin America

DescriptionHand-built. Low fired. Tan clay burnished. Decorated with black and shades of brown slip. Black Virgin with mantle and halo holding Christ child. Child with hands raised wears tan robe trimmed in brown. Distinctive eyes and mouth. // Marked 3F855.