Female Figurine

1450–1532

Inca
South coast or southern highlands, Peru

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

Culture: Inca
Title: Female Figurine
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.: 1450–1532
Medium: Silver
Dimensions: 6.4 × 1.6 cm (2 1/2 × 3 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. James W. Alsdorf through the Alsdorf Foundation
Reference Number: 1965.3
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Richard Townsend, ed., The Ancient Americas: Art from Sacred Landscapes, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago/Prestel Verlag, 1992), cat. 86.
Richard Townsend with Elizabeth Pope, Indian Art of the Americas at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2016), 374, cat. 350 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, The Ancient Americas: Art from Sacred Landscapes, Oct. 10, 1992–Jan. 3, 1993, cat. 86; traveled to Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Feb. 4–Apr. 18, 1993, and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, June 6–Aug. 15, 1993.

Allan Caplan (1918-1998), N.Y., by 1965; sold to James Alsdorf (died 1990) and Marilynn Alsdorf (born Bruder) (died 2019), Chicago, IL; given to the Art Institute, 1965.

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