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Collection Online as of April 26, 2024

Pair of Ear Ornaments

Pair of Ear Ornaments

c. 500–200 BCE
(?)
hammered and cut gold
Diameter: 9.6 cm (3 3/4 in.); Overall: 2.6 cm (1 in.)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Tishman 1957.400
Location: 232 Andean

Description

There seems to be a link between Chavín religion and appearance of the Andes’ first large precious-metal objects, made using revolutionary new metallurgical processes. Chavín may have developed these technical innovations to express the inexpressible, the "wholly other" nature of its religion. In many areas, elite men and women wore the ornaments as emblems of their ties to this religion, and eventually were buried with them. These 16 objects, along with three others not in the museum’s collection, are said to have come as a group from Chavín itself.
  • Juan Dalmau, Peru, to Francisco Xavier Mandiola
    ?-1935
    Francisco Xavier Mandiola, sold to Joseph Brummer, Brummer Galler
    1935-1947
    Joseph Brummer, to Dr. Vladimir G. Simkovitch
    1947-1957
    Dr. Vladimir G. Simkhovitch, to Cleveland Museum of Art, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Tishman
    1957-?
    The Cleveland Museum of Art
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    The Brummer Gallery Records. Cloisters (Museum), n.d. N3490 libmma.contentdm.oclc.org
    William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, and Ralph T. Coe. The Imagination of Primitive Man: A Survey of the Arts of the Non-Literate Peoples of the World. Kansas City, Mo: The Museum, 1962. Mentioned: p. 162, no. 269
  • The Arts of Pre- Hispanic America. The Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA (organizer) (April 12-May 31, 1970).
    Treasures of Peruvian Gold. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 23-April 3, 1966).
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