Patch

Textiles

1000/1476

Lambayeque
North coast, Peru

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Culture: Lambayeque
Title: Patch
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.: Made 1000–1476
Medium: Cotton and wool (camelid), slit tapestry weave with eccentric wefts
Dimensions: 22.9 × 12.2 cm (9 × 4 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Kate S. Buckingham Endowment
Reference Number: 1955.1746
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Walter Lehmann with Heinrich Doering, Kunstgeschichete des Altan Peru (Berlin: Verlag Ernst Wasmuth A.G., 1924), pl. 118.
Walter Lehmann with Heinrich Doering, The Art of Old Peru (Ernst Wasmuth, 1924), pl. 118.

Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Super/Natural: Textiles of the Andes, Feb. 23-June 16, 2019, no cat.

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, Berlin then Durham, SC, and Hans Gaffron (1902–1979), Berlin then Chicago [correspondence and documentation of the Gaffron Collection in curatorial file]; sold to the Art Institute, 1955.

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