Ear Ornaments

400–800 CE

Tiwanaku-Wari
Coastal Peru or highland Bolivia

Status: On View, Gallery 136
Department: Arts of the Americas

Culture: Tiwanaku
Title: Ear Ornaments
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.: 400 CE–800 CE
Medium: Shell, stone, silver, and copper
Dimensions: Diam.: 6.5 cm (2 9/16 in.)
Credit Line: Kate S. Buckingham Endowment
Reference Number: 1955.2543a-b
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Walter Lehmann and Heinrich Ubbelohde-Doering, Kunstgeschichte des Alten Peru (Tübingen, Germany: Ernst Wasmuth Verlag, 1924), pl. IX. (color ill.).
Walter Lehmann and Heinrich Ubbelohde-Doering, The Art of Old Peru (London: E. Benn, 1924), pl. IX. (color ill.).
Heinrich Ubbelohde-Doering, Old Peruvian Art (New York: E. Weyhe, 1936), pl. IX. (color ill.).
Wendell C. Bennett, Ancient Arts of the Andes, exh. cat. (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1954), 138, fig. 120.
Walter Lehmann and Heinrich Ubbelohde-Doering, The Art of Old Peru (New York: Hacker Art Books, 1975), pl. IX. (color ill.).
Everett McNear, High Culture in the Americas before 1500, exh. cat. (Arts Club Chicago, 1982), pg. 44 (ill.)
Richard Townsend, ed., The Ancient Americas: Art from Sacred Landscapes, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago/Prestel Verlag, 1992), pp. 338, 377 (ill.).
Richard Townsend with Elizabeth Pope, Indian Art of the Americas at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2016), 335, cat. 296 (ill.).

New York, Museum of Modern Art, Ancient Arts of the Andes, Jan. 25–Mar. 21, 1954, cat.; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1954; San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, July 15–Sept. 15, 1954.
Arts Club of Chicago, High Culture in the Americas before 1500, Nov. 15–Dec. 31, 1982, ex. cat. 104.
Art Institute of Chicago, The Ancient Americas: Art from Sacred Landscapes, October 10, 1992–January 3, 1993, cat. 77, pp. 338; traveled to Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, February 4–April 18, 1993, and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, June 6–August 15, 1993.

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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