Beaker

Late 15th–early 16th century

Inca
Ica Valley, south coast, Peru

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

Culture: Inca
Title: Beaker
Place: Ica Valley (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.: 1475–1525
Medium: Gold
Dimensions: 16.5 × 6.4 cm (6 1/2 × 2 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Kate S. Buckingham Endowment
Reference Number: 1955.2587
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Walter Lehmann and Heinrich Ubbelohde-Doering, Kunstgeschichte des Alten Peru (Tübingen, Germany: Ernst Wasmuth Verlag, 1924), pl. 103 (ill.).
Walter Lehmann and Heinrich Ubbelohde-Doering, The Art of Old Peru (London: E. Benn, 1924), pl. 103 (ill.).
Heinrich Ubbelohde-Doering, Old Peruvian Art (New York: E. Weyhe, 1936), pl. 40 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, “Treasures of Ancient Peruvian Art,” Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly 46, no. 2 (Apr. 1, 1952): 28 (ill.).
Heinrich Ubbelohde-Doering, The Art of Ancient Peru (New York: Praeger, 1952), pl. 85 (ill.).
Heinrich Ubbelohde-Doering, The Art of Ancient Peru, 2nd ed., (New York: Praeger, 1954), pl. 85 (ill.).
Wendell C. Bennett, Ancient Arts of the Andes, exh. cat. (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1954), 88, cat. 100 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, “Gaffron Collection Acquired,” The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly 50, no. 1 (Feb. 1, 1956), 2 (ill.), https://www.jstor.org/stable/4117478.
Allen Wardwell, Primitive Art in the Collections of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1965), fig. 3 (ill.).
Allen Wardwell, The Gold of Ancient America, exh. cat. (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1968), 42-43, cat. 28 (ill.)
Walter Lehmann and Heinrich Doering, The Art of Old Peru, reissued (New York: Hacker Art Books, 1975), pl. 103 (ill.).
Richard Townsend with Elizabeth Pope, Indian Art of the Americas at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2016), 368, cat. 345 (ill.).
Ramon Mujica Pincilla, Arte y Tesoros del Perú 50 Años. Nuevas miradas, Coleccion Arte y tesoros del Peru (Lima, Peru: Fondo Editorial del Banco de Crédito del Perú, 2023), I (ill.), https://issuu.com/fondoeditorialbcp/docs/libro_bcp_2023.

New York, Museum of Modern Art, Ancient Arts of the Andes, Jan. 25–Mar. 21, 1954, cat. 100; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1954; San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, July 15–Sept. 15, 1954.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Gold of Ancient America, Dec. 5, 1968–Jan. 12, 1969, cat. 28; Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 1–Mar. 9, 1969; Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Mar. 24–Apr. 20, 1969.
New Haven, CT, Peabody Musem of Natural History, Machu Picchu: Unveiling the Mystery of the Incas, Jan. 26–May 4, 2003, no cat. no.; Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, June 22, 2003–Sept. 7, 2003; Pittsburgh, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Oct. 18, 2003–Jan. 4, 2004; Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Feb. 13–May 9, 2004; Houston Museum of Natural Science, June 12–Aug. 29, 2004; Chicago, Field Museum of Natural History, Oct. 8, 2004–Feb. 1, 2005.

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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