GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Elaborately decorated accoutrements such as this pair of ear ornaments were made for elite individuals on the north coast of Peru. Constructed from thin, hammered sheet of gold, they are decorated on the front side with relatively complex imagery. Although the original design has been lost from these once-identical ornaments, the more complete example offers a close approximation to the original form.
At the center of the earflare, a noble, lord or ruler wears a large headdress and sleeved tunic and holds a crescent-shape knife and unknown object in either hand. The figure stands on an ornate litter comprising a lattice work platform supported by intercrossed beams that terminate in snake-fox heads on each end. Litters of this type were used to carry people moving in unison, proffering elite status on the central individual.
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- "Earflare (one of a pair), 1991.419.67,"The Metropolitan Museum of Art, http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/316436 (Accessed April 23, 2015).
- Getty Vocabulary, AAT (litters (drags, litters and pedestrian land vehicles): AAT: 300238441)
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Sicán (Lambayeque), Late Intermediate Period, 900–1100 C.E. (noted on TMS), updated by KJones on 10/22/15 and 09/16/16.
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Until 1975: Edward L. Shaw, Buenos Aires, Argentina [1]
From 1975: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene McDermott [1], [2]
[1] The main source for this provenance was existing provenance information in TMS (in Dallas Museum of Art Digital Collections Records Object Files). 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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253364002: UMO. [Caption] Drawing of attendants carrying a litter. Source: Pearson Scott Foresman [Public domain], Wikimedia Commons, accessed: April 24, 2015, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ALitter_(PSF).png.
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General Description
Elaborately decorated accoutrements such as this pair of ear ornaments were made for elite individuals on the north coast of Peru. Constructed from thin, hammered sheet of gold, they are decorated on the front side with relatively complex imagery. Although the original design has been lost from these once-identical ornaments, the more complete example offers a close approximation to the original form.
At the center of the earflare, a noble, lord or ruler wears a large headdress and sleeved tunic and holds a crescent-shape knife and unknown object in either hand. The figure stands on an ornate litter comprising a lattice work platform supported by intercrossed beams that terminate in snake-fox heads on each end. Litters of this type were used to carry people moving in unison, proffering elite status on the central individual.
Drawn from
- "Earflare (one of a pair), 1991.419.67,"The Metropolitan Museum of Art, http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/316436 (Accessed April 23, 2015).
- Getty Vocabulary, AAT (litters (drags, litters and pedestrian land vehicles): AAT: 300238441)
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Notes
Sicán (Lambayeque), Late Intermediate Period, 900–1100 C.E. (noted on TMS), updated by KJones on 10/22/15 and 09/16/16.
Catalogue essays
Artist/designers
Cultures
Geography
Process/materials
Historical periods
Individuals
Subject terms
RELATED OBJECTS
PROVENANCE
Until 1975: Edward L. Shaw, Buenos Aires, Argentina [1]
From 1975: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene McDermott [1], [2]
[1] The main source for this provenance was existing provenance information in TMS (in Dallas Museum of Art Digital Collections Records Object Files). 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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