Ear Ornament
c. 500–200 BC
Maker Unknown
Art of the Americas
Ear Ornament, c. 500–200 BC. Peru, North Highlands, Chavín de Huantar(?), Chavín Style (1000-200 BC). Hammered and cut gold; diameter: 9.6 cm (3 3/4 in.); overall: 2.6 cm (1 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Tishman 1957.400.1
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Metalwork
- Formatted Medium
- hammered and cut gold
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 9.6 cm (3 3/4 in.); Overall: 2.6 cm (1 in.)
- Departments
- Art of the Americas
- Accession Number
- 1957.400.1
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Tishman
- Exhibitions
- The Arts of Pre- Hispanic America, Boston, MA: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; October 4 - November 5, 1961. "Twenty-five Centuries of Peruvian Art, 700B.C. - 1800 A.D." Cat. no. 6c, repr. in black and white, bottom.<br><br>Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art; January 18-February 25, 1962. "The Imagination of Primitive Man", cat. no. 269, p. 162. no repr.<br><br>Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art; February 23-April 3, 1966. "Treasures of Peruvian Gold." <br><br>Norfolk, VA: Norfolk Museum of Arts & Sciences; April 12- May 13, 1970. " The Arts of Pre-Hispanic America."
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 232 Andean
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