GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Among the relatively few objects in the limited category of things that are at once magical, aesthetic, and technological is the mirror. In addition to its sharing of all these qualities in the Chinese and Japanese traditions, the mirror had a similar multivalency in the pre-Columbian New World. Mirrors were used by each of the base cultures of Mesoamerica and the Andes, including the Olmec and Chavín. This example is representative of one Chavín mirror type, and the form is similar to other known examples. Anthracite is found as a raw material in the Jequetepeque and Chicama valleys on Peru's north coast. Anthracite mirrors were highly polished to reflect a sharp, dark image and often accompanied the dead at Cupisnique sites.
Adapted from
- Label text, A. H. Meadows Galleries.
- John Lunsford, DMA unpublished material, 1986.
NOTES
- Cupisnique, 1000–200 B.C.E., updated by KJones in TMS on 10/15/13 and 09/06/16.
- Medium noted as jet on TMS, anthracite on gallery label - same per KJones (04/13/15).
- Incorrect image originally on website (1976.W.1782). Was reported to NShreenan on 04/14/15, and resolved as of 06/04/15.
- OBJECT FILE MISSING (1976.W.1792) - reported to BMacElhose on 03/31/2015.
- General Description drawn from: DMA Label Copy (1976.W.1792), n.d.; DMA unpublished material [John Lunsford, Acquisition Checklist (1986.36), dated May 27, 1986, Dallas Museum of Art Collections Records Object File, Confidential].
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1976: Nora and John Wise, New York [1]
From 1976: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, gift of Nora Wise [1], [2]
[1] The main source for this provenance is Dallas Museum of Art Collections Records Digital Object File (TMS) (n.d., copy in Dallas Museum of Art Collections Records Object File, Confidential). Exceptions and other supporting documents are noted.
[2] The name of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, founded in 1933, was changed to the Dallas Museum of Art in 1983.
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General Description
Among the relatively few objects in the limited category of things that are at once magical, aesthetic, and technological is the mirror. In addition to its sharing of all these qualities in the Chinese and Japanese traditions, the mirror had a similar multivalency in the pre-Columbian New World. Mirrors were used by each of the base cultures of Mesoamerica and the Andes, including the Olmec and Chavín. This example is representative of one Chavín mirror type, and the form is similar to other known examples. Anthracite is found as a raw material in the Jequetepeque and Chicama valleys on Peru's north coast. Anthracite mirrors were highly polished to reflect a sharp, dark image and often accompanied the dead at Cupisnique sites.
Adapted from
- Label text, A. H. Meadows Galleries.
- John Lunsford, DMA unpublished material, 1986.
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Notes
- Cupisnique, 1000–200 B.C.E., updated by KJones in TMS on 10/15/13 and 09/06/16.
- Medium noted as jet on TMS, anthracite on gallery label - same per KJones (04/13/15).
- Incorrect image originally on website (1976.W.1782). Was reported to NShreenan on 04/14/15, and resolved as of 06/04/15.
- OBJECT FILE MISSING (1976.W.1792) - reported to BMacElhose on 03/31/2015.
- General Description drawn from: DMA Label Copy (1976.W.1792), n.d.; DMA unpublished material [John Lunsford, Acquisition Checklist (1986.36), dated May 27, 1986, Dallas Museum of Art Collections Records Object File, Confidential].
Cultures
Geography
Process/materials
Historical periods
Individuals
Subject terms
RELATED OBJECTS
PROVENANCE
1976: Nora and John Wise, New York [1]
From 1976: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, gift of Nora Wise [1], [2]
[1] The main source for this provenance is Dallas Museum of Art Collections Records Digital Object File (TMS) (n.d., copy in Dallas Museum of Art Collections Records Object File, Confidential). Exceptions and other supporting documents are noted.
[2] The name of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, founded in 1933, was changed to the Dallas Museum of Art in 1983.
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