{ "data": { "id": 134845, "accession_number": "1957.400.1", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "Ear Ornament, c. 500\u2013200 BCE. Peru, North Highlands, Chav\u00edn de Huantar(?), Chav\u00edn style. Hammered and cut gold; diameter: 9.6 cm (3 3/4 in.); overall: 2.6 cm (1 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Tishman, 1957.400.1", "current_location": "232 Andean", "title": "Ear Ornament", "creation_date": "c. 500\u2013200 BCE", "creation_date_earliest": -500, "creation_date_latest": -200, "artists_tags": [], "culture": [ "Peru, North Highlands, Chav\u00edn de Huantar(?), Chav\u00edn style" ], "technique": "hammered and cut gold", "support_materials": [], "department": "Art of the Americas", "collection": "AA - Andes", "type": "Metalwork", "measurements": "Diameter: 9.6 cm (3 3/4 in.); Overall: 2.6 cm (1 in.)", "dimensions": { "diameter": { "width": 0.096, "width_inch": 3, "width_inch_fraction": 0.75 }, "overall": { "width": 0.026, "width_inch": 1, "width_inch_fraction": 0.0 } }, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [], "exhibitions": { "current": [ { "id": 335423, "title": "The Arts of Pre- Hispanic America", "description": "The Arts of Pre- Hispanic America. The Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA (organizer) (April 12-May 31, 1970).", "opening_date": "1970-04-12T05:00:00" } ], "legacy": [ { "description": "Boston, MA: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; October 4 - November 5, 1961. \"Twenty-five Centuries of Peruvian Art, 700B.C. - 1800 A.D.\" Cat. no. 6c, repr. in black and white, bottom.", "opening_date": "1961-10-04T00:00:00" }, { "description": "Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art; January 18-February 25, 1962. \"The Imagination of Primitive Man\", cat. no. 269, p. 162. no repr.", "opening_date": "1962-01-18T00:00:00" }, { "description": "Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art; February 23-April 3, 1966. \"Treasures of Peruvian Gold.\"", "opening_date": "1966-02-23T00:00:00" }, { "description": "Norfolk, VA: Norfolk Museum of Arts & Sciences; April 12- May 13, 1970. \" The Arts of Pre-Hispanic America.\"", "opening_date": "1970-04-12T00:00:00" } ] }, "provenance": [ { "description": "Juan Dalmau, Peru", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": null, "sortorder": null }, { "description": "Joseph Brummer", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": null, "sortorder": null }, { "description": "Dr. Vladimir G. Simkhovitch", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": null, "sortorder": null }, { "description": "Juan Dalmau, Peru; Joseph Brummer; Dr. Vladimir G. Simkhovitch", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": null, "sortorder": null } ], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [ "1957.400" ], "did_you_know": null, "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "There seems to be a link between Chav\u00edn religion and appearance of the Andes\u2019 first large precious-metal objects, made using revolutionary new metallurgical processes. Chav\u00edn may have developed these technical innovations to express the inexpressible, the \"wholly other\" nature of its religion. In many areas, elite men and women wore the ornaments as emblems of their ties to this religion, and eventually were buried with them. These 16 objects, along with three others not in the museum\u2019s collection, are said to have come as a group from Chav\u00edn itself.", "external_resources": { "wikidata": [ "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60757059" ], "internet_archive": [ "https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1957.400.1-ear-ornament" ] }, "citations": [ { "citation": "The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, March 1958.", "page_number": "89", "url": null } ], "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1957.400.1", "images": { "annotation": null, "web": { "url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1957.400.1/1957.400.1_web.jpg", "width": "689", "height": "900", "filesize": "251215", "filename": "1957.400.1_web.jpg" }, "print": { "url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1957.400.1/1957.400.1_print.jpg", "width": "2565", "height": "3351", "filesize": "2586958", "filename": "1957.400.1_print.jpg" }, "full": { "url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1957.400.1/1957.400.1_full.tif", "width": "2565", "height": "3351", "filesize": "25812504", "filename": "1957.400.1_full.tif" } }, "alternate_images": [ { "web": { "url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1957.400.1/1957.400.1_alt0_web.jpg", "width": "707", "height": "900", "filesize": "270893" }, "print": { "url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1957.400.1/1957.400.1_alt0_print.jpg", "width": "2427", "height": "3091", "filesize": "2489859" }, "full": { "url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1957.400.1/1957.400.1_alt0_full.tif", "width": "2427", "height": "3091", "filesize": "22532416" }, "date_created": "2010-09-09T14:20:34", "annotation": "" } ], "creditline": "Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Tishman", "image_credit": null, "sketchfab_id": null, "sketchfab_url": null, "gallery_donor_text": null, "athena_id": 134845, "creators": [], "legal_status": "accessioned", "accession_date": "1957-10-31T00:00:00", "sortable_date": -500, "date_added_to_oa": null, "date_text": "c. 500\u2013200 BCE", "collapse_artists": false, "on_loan": false, "recently_acquired": false, "record_type": "component", "conservation_statement": null, "has_conservation_images": false, "cover_accession_number": "1957.400", "is_nazi_era_provenance": false, "impression": null, "alternate_titles": [], "is_highlight": false, "updated_at": "2026-05-29 06:53:12.707000" } }