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© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University. Photo by Michael McKelvey.
Tweezers with Repousse Bird Heads
© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University. Photo by Michael McKelvey.
© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University. Photo by Michael McKelvey.
© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University. Photo by Michael McKelvey.
ClassificationsArt of the Americas

Tweezers with Repousse Bird Heads

Place CreatedPeru, South America
MediumGold-copper alloy
Credit LineGift of Cora W. and Laurence C. Witten II
Dimensions1 3/8 x 1 1/16 in. (3.5 x 2.7 cm)
Object number1992.015.267
Exhibition HistoryMCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, May 11, 1993 - April 1996
The Art of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions at the Michael C. Carlos Museum, Michael C. Carlos Museum, November 8, 1997 - January 4, 1998
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 13, 2002 - June 2012
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, February 9, 2013 - March 13, 2019
MCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, July 2, 2019 - Present
Published ReferencesRebecca 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), 218-19, figure 497.
ProvenanceEx coll. Laurence (1926-1995) and Cora (1931-2023) Witten, United States, possibly purchased from Louis Slavitz (1907-1992), New York, New York, 1970.
Status
On view
Collections
  • Art of the Americas