Pair of Earspool Shafts

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CultureMoche

Titles

Pair of Earspool Shafts

Date100–700 AD

PlacePeru, South America

MediumGold

DimensionsEach: 3 × 1 3/4 in. diameter (7.6 × 4.4 cm)

Credit LineGift of Alfred C. Glassell, Jr.

Object number2002.4235.1,.2

Non exposé

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Department

Art of the Indigenous Americas, Glassell Collection

Object Type

METALWORK

Provenance(John Wise, Dallas, by 1966);
Alfred C. Glassell, Jr. Collection, Houston, since July, 1966 [Invoice dated 4/26/1966; Letter from Junius Bird, dated 6/30/1966; Additional Invoice, dated 7/5/1966; note from John Wise archives at the DMA, dated 12/8/1967] [Glassell album #3, slide dated "DEC 67"];
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2002, 2002.4235.1
Exhibition HistoryDallas, October, 1959
St. Petersburg, 1965
Cosmopolitan, c. 1965

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