Twenty-one Plaque Ornaments

as mounted to black velvet card on receipt by MFAH

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Twenty-one Plaque Ornaments
as mounted to black velvet card on receipt by MFAH
CultureChimú (possibly)
Titles
  • Twenty-one Plaque Ornaments
Date1100–1450 AD
PlaceProbably Peru
MediumGold
Credit LineGift of Alfred C. Glassell, Jr.
Object number2010.740.1-.21
Not on view

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Department
Art of the Indigenous Americas, Glassell Collection
Object Type
Provenance[Ken Klassen, Burnaby, Canada]; purchased by Alfred C. Glassell, Jr. (1913–2008), Houston, by at least 1993–2008 [1]; Estate of Alfred C. Glassell, Jr., 2008–2010; given to MFAH, 2010.

[1] Glassell inventory, described April 23, 1993.

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