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"tombstone": "Plaque, c. 500\u2013200 BCE. Peru, North Coast, Chongoyape(?), Chav\u00edn style (900-200 BCE). Hammered and cut gold; overall: 12.5 x 13.8 cm (4 15/16 x 5 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund, 1938.431",
"current_location": "232 Andean",
"title": "Plaque",
"creation_date": "c. 500\u2013200 BCE",
"creation_date_earliest": -500,
"creation_date_latest": -200,
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"department": "Art of the Americas",
"collection": "AA - Andes",
"type": "Jewelry",
"measurements": "Overall: 12.5 x 13.8 cm (4 15/16 x 5 7/16 in.)",
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"id": 312180,
"title": "Art of the Americas",
"description": "Art of the Americas. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 19-April 11, 1943).",
"opening_date": "1943-03-19T04:00:00"
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"id": 361354,
"title": "25 Centuries of Peruvian Art",
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"opening_date": "1961-10-03T04:00:00"
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{
"id": 300804,
"title": "Treasures of Peruvian Gold",
"description": "Treasures of Peruvian Gold. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 23-April 3, 1966).",
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"description": "The Ancient Art of the North American Continent, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH (January, 1944).",
"opening_date": "1944-01-01T00:00:00"
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"description": "Ancient Art of the Andes, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (January 26 - March 26,1954).",
"opening_date": "1954-01-26T05:00:00Z"
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"description": "Twenty-five Centuries of Peruvian Art, 700B.C. - 1800 A.D., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA (October 4 - November 5, 1961).",
"opening_date": "1961-10-04T00:00:00"
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"description": "Treasures of Peruvian Gold, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 23 - April 3,1966).",
"opening_date": "1966-02-23T05:00:00Z"
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{
"description": "Gold! The Eternal Quest for Riches, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, CA (1987).",
"opening_date": "1987-01-01T00:00:00"
}
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"description": "Baron Walram von Schoeler, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art",
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"date": "?-1938",
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"date": "1938-",
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"did_you_know": "Hammered gold ornaments have been produced in the Andes since 1500 BCE.",
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"description": "These plaques showing a powerful Chav\u00edn deity may come from a group of gold objects found in a lavish tomb in the 1920s. One is shaped as the deity\u2019s fanged head, its fur transformed into sixteen serpents that edge the plaque. On the other, the deity\u2019s visually elusive body also appears: the clawed hands over the chest may clutch a horizontal staff, an emblem of authority; across the waist is a belt that sprouts serpents; and beneath are the legs and feet, which stand atop fanged masks.",
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"citation": "Milliken, William. \"Two Chavin Vessels.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 42, no. 9 (November 1955): 203-205.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 204",
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