
Art Institute of ChicagoPublic domain
Fragment
Lambayeque · 1000-1476
Provenance
Ownership history
- 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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