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Pendant in the Form of a Figure

Tiwanaku · 400–800 CE

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 (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.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Arts Club of Chicago, High Culture in the Americas before 1500, Nov. 15–Dec. 31, 1982, ex. cat. 103.
Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/7966/the-ancient-americas-art-from-sacred-landscapes">The Ancient Americas: Art from Sacred Landscapes</a>, Oct. 10, 1992–Jan. 3, 1993, cat. 77, as Pendant; Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Feb. 4–April 18, 1993; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, June 6–Aug. 15, 1993.

Literature

Walter Lehmann and Heinrich Ubbelohde-Doering, Kunstgeschichte des Alten Peru (Ernst Wasmuth Verlag, 1924), pl. IX. (color ill.).
Walter Lehmann with Heinrich Ubbelohde-Doering, eds., The Art of Old Peru (Ernest Benn, 1924), pl. IX. (color ill.).
Heinrich Ubbelohde-Doering, Old Peruvian Art (E. Weyhe, 1936), pl. IX. (color ill.).
Walter Lehmann and Heinrich Ubbelohde-Doering, The Art of Old Peru (Hacker Art Books, 1975), pl. IX. (color ill.).
Everett McNear, High Culture in the Americas before 1500, exh. cat. (Arts Club Chicago, 1982), pg. 44 (ill.)
Richard Townsend, ed., The Ancient Americas: Art from Sacred Landscapes, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1992), 338, 377, cat. 77, fig. 7 (ill.), as Pendant.
Richard Townsend with Elizabeth Pope, Indian Art of the Americas at the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 2016), 335, cat. 297 (ill.).

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