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

ClassificationsArt of the Americas

Plume in the Form of a Stingray

Place CreatedPeru, South America

CultureNasca

PeriodEarly Intermediate - Middle Horizon

Date1-650 CE

MediumSilver alloy

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

Dimensions6 1/2 x 6 5/8 in. (16.5 x 16.8 cm)

Object number1992.015.298

Exhibition HistoryMCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, May 11, 1993 - April 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 Reinstallation, September 13, 2002 - June 2012
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, February 9, 2013 - March 13, 2019
Published ReferencesSotheby's New York, Pre-Columbian Art (November 23 - 24, 1982), lot 308.
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), 197, figure 459.

ProvenanceEx private collection. Ex coll. Laurence (1926-1995) and Cora (1931-2023) Witten, United States, purchased from Sotheby's New York, November 24, 1982, lot 308.

Status

On view

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