© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University. Photo by Michael McKelvey.

ClassificationsArt of the Americas

Pair of Earspools with Spondylus Shell Diving Scene

Place CreatedPeru, South America

CultureChimú

PeriodLate Intermediate

Date1000-1450 CE

MediumGold-copper alloy, silver alloy, textile

Credit LineGift of Cora W. and Laurence C. Witten II

Dimensions2 1/2 x 4 1/4 in. (6.4 x 10.8 cm)

Object number1992.015.261A/B

Exhibition HistoryMCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, May 11, 1993 - October 16, 1996
Tears of the Moon: Ancient American Precious Metals from the Permanent Collection, Michael C. Carlos Museum, October 16, 1996 - October 16, 1998
MCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, October 16, 1998 - 2001
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 13, 2002 - June 2012
'For I am the Black Jaguar': Shamanic Visionary Experience in Ancient American Art, Michael C. Carlos, September 5, 2012 - January 5, 2013
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, February 9, 2013 - June 1, 2015
MCCM Permanent Collection Gallery, June 6, 2015 - March 13, 2019
MCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, July 2, 2019 - Present
Published ReferencesMichael C. Carlos Museum Handbook (Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum, 1996), 88.
Rebecca Stone-Miller, Seeing With New Eyes: Highlights of the Michael C. Carlos Museum Collection of Art of the Ancient Americas (Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum, 2002), 194, figure 458ab.
Michael C. Carlos Museum: Highlights of the Collections (Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum, 2011), 79.
Rebecca Stone, Art of the Andes: From Chavin to Inca. 3rd Edition (London: Thames and Hudson, 2012), 185, figures 155-156.
MCCM Newsletter, Spring/Summer 2013.

ProvenanceEx coll. Laurence (1926-1995) and Cora (1931-2023) Witten, United States, possibly purchased from Alan C. Lapiner [Arts of the Four Quarters] (1933-1975), New York, New York 1969.

Status

On view

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