id: 135145 accession number: 1958.177 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1958.177 updated: 2023-08-24 11:35:27.558000 Spoon with Human Figure, c. 500–200 BC. Peru, North Highlands, Chavín de Huantar(?), Chavín style (1000-200 BC). Hammered and cut gold; overall: 2.6 cm (1 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Tishman 1958.177 title: Spoon with Human Figure title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 500–200 BC creation date earliest: -500 creation date latest: -200 current location: 232 Andean creditline: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Tishman copyright: --- culture: Peru, North Highlands, Chavín de Huantar(?), Chavín style (1000-200 BC) technique: hammered and cut gold department: Art of the Americas collection: AA - Andes type: Metalwork find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 2.6 cm (1 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: 25 Centuries of Peruvian Art opening date: 1961-10-03T04:00:00 25 Centuries of Peruvian Art. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA (co-organizer) (October 3-November 3, 1961). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Cincinnati, OH: The Taft Museum; 1950. " Ancient American Gold and Jade." * Dallas, TX: Neiman-Marcus Co.; 1959. " South American Fortnight." cat. no. 21, pg.10, no repr. * 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. 6e. * New York, NY: The Museum of Primitive Art; February 21- May 6, 1962. "Gods with Fangs: The Chavin Civilization of Peru."cat.no. 22, no repr. * Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art; February 23-April 3, 1966. "Treasures of Peruvian Gold," no objects in catalogue. --- PROVENANCE Juan Dalmau, Peru date: footnotes: citations: Jospeh Brummer date: footnotes: citations: Dr. Vladimir G. Simkhovitch date: footnotes: citations: Juan Dalmau, Peru; Joseph Brummer; Dr. Vladimir G. Simkhovitch date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: There seems to be a link between Chavín religion and appearance of the Andes’ first large precious-metal objects, made using revolutionary new metallurgical processes. Chavín 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’s collection, are said to have come as a group from Chavín itself. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS The Brummer Gallery Records. Cloisters (Museum), n.d. page number: N3501 url: https://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16028coll9/id/11694/rec/1 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. 295 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n319 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. 295 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n319 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. 399 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n419 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991. page number: Published as: 6 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n21 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1958.177/1958.177_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1958.177/1958.177_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1958.177/1958.177_full.tif