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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.1072.B
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
Ear Plug with Relief Decorations
Classification
Jewelry
Work Type
jewelry
Date
1300-1438
Places
Creation Place: South America, Peru
Culture
Pre-Columbian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/55075

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Gold, silver and copper alloy
Dimensions
13.02 x 14.29 cm (5 1/8 x 5 5/8 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.1072.B
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Chinese Sculpture, Bronzes, Jades, Paintings and Drawings, Egyptian and Persian sculpture, Pre-Columbian art; selected from the collection of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1943), p. 8
  • George M. A. Hanfmann and Benjamin Rowland, "Ancient Arts at the Fogg Museum", Archaeology (Autumn 1954), vol. 7, no. 3, p. 130, p. 137, repr.
  • Dorothy W. Gillerman, ed., Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1969), no. 127, pp. 198-199, fig. 127
  • Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), no. 3, p. 13, repr.

Exhibition History

  • Chinese sculpture, bronzes, jades, paintings and drawings, Egyptian and Persian sculpture, Pre-Columbian art : selected from the collection of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 10/01/1943 - 02/28/1944
  • Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 01/23/1969 - 03/31/1969

Verification Level

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