Fragment by Lambayeque
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Fragment

Lambayeque · 1000-1476

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. 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.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Mexican, Central, and South American Textiles: A Living Legacy, Oct. 28, 1992-Jan. 17, 1993.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Department of African and Amerindian Art, October 27, 1994- March 8, 1995
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Department of African and Amerindian Art, August 27- December 22, 1999
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Department of African and Amerindian Art, May 30- August 21, 2002
  • Art Institute of Chicago, The African and Amerindian Galleries rotation, May 21-October 31, 2013

Literature

Published references

  • Heinrich Ubbelohde-Doering, The Art of Ancient Peru (Frederick A. Praeger, 1952), p. 28 and pl. 78.

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