Balance-Beam Scale with Geometric Cut-out Motifs and String holding Shell Pendants

Arts of the Americas

500–800

Possibly Nazca
South coast, Peru

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Culture: Nasca
Title: Balance-Beam Scale with Geometric Cut-out Motifs and String holding Shell Pendants
Place: Peru (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 500 CE–800 CE
Medium: Bone, string, and shell
Dimensions: 9.7 × 2 cm (3 13/16 × 3/4) (scale only)
Credit Line: Buckingham Fund
Reference Number: 1955.2579g
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Eduard Gaffron (1861–1931), Lima, Peru, from 1892 to 1912, then Berlin, from 1912 [History of the Department report (Joanne Behrens, 1985) and correspondence in curatorial file]; by descent to his children Mercedes Gaffron (1908–1993), Berlin then Durham, NC, and Hans Gaffron (1902–1979), Berlin then Chicago [correspondence and documentation of the Gaffron Collection in curatorial file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1955.

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