id: 129799 accession number: 1952.233 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1952.233 updated: 2025-07-09 11:08:21.617000 Backrest of a Litter, 1185–1275 (radiocarbon date, 95.4% probability). Central Andes, North Coast, Chimú people, late Intermediate period. Mixed media: wood, gold alloy, pigment, shell inlay; overall: 60.4 x 95 cm (23 3/4 x 37 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1952.233 title: Backrest of a Litter title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1185–1275 (radiocarbon date, 95.4% probability) creation date earliest: 1185 creation date latest: 1275 current location: 232 Andean creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: Central Andes, North Coast, Chimú people, late Intermediate period technique: mixed media: wood, gold alloy, pigment, shell inlay department: Art of the Americas collection: AA - Andes type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 60.4 x 95 cm (23 3/4 x 37 3/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Treasures of Peruvian Gold opening date: 1966-02-23T05:00:00 Treasures of Peruvian Gold. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 23-April 3, 1966). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Ancient Arts of the Andes, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (January 26- March 29, 1954).', 'opening_date': '1954-01-26T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Treasures of Peruvian Gold, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 23- April 3, 1996).', 'opening_date': '1996-02-23T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE John Wise, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: ?-1952 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1952- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS "Art and Archaeology at the Cleveland Museum of Art." Archaeology 6, no. 4 (1953) page number: p. 202 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/41663172 Bennett, Wendell Clark. Ancient Arts of the Andes. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1954. page number: p. 120, fig. 137 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 351 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n67 Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, and Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress). Memoirs of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University. Cambridge: The Museum, 1937. page number: p. 68 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 299 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n323 Glubok, Shirley, Shirley Glubok, and Gerard Nook. The Art of Ancient Peru. New York: Harper & Row, 1966. page number: url: Cleveland Museum of Art. Selected Works: Cleveland Museum of Art. 1967. page number: p. 235 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 299 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n323 Howard, Cecil, and J. H. Parry. Pizarro and the Conquest of Peru. London: Cassell, 1970. page number: p. 76 url: Masada, Yoshio. Ancient American Art (Japan, Gakken Co. Ltd, 1973) page number: url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 403 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n423 Scott, John F. Latin American Art: Ancient to Modern. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1999. page number: url: Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 338 url: Bergh, Susan E. "Fragment of the Chimú Prisoner Textile" published on the occasion of Enchanted: Visual Histories of the Ancient Andes, July 30-November 14, 2021, Menil Collection (2021). page number: fig. 8 url: https://www.menil.org/read/online-features/enchanted/weaving-the-world/chimu-prisoner-textile Young, Michelle, Colin Cooke, Richard Burger, Emily Kaplan, Gabriel Prieto Jacob Bongers, et al. "Mass spectrometry measurements of mercury isotope ratios support geochemical sourcing of archaeological cinnabar in the Andean region." PLoS One 20(7): e0326414. page number: url: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0326414 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1952.233/1952.233_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1952.233/1952.233_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1952.233/1952.233_full.tif