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Pair of Stepped Beakers

Pair of Stepped Beakers

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Pair of Stepped Beakers
Artist
CultureInca (Inka)
Titles
  • Pair of Stepped Beakers
  • Pair of Cups
Date1200–1532 AD
PlacePeru
MediumGold
DimensionsEach: 2 1/2 × 2 3/4 diameter in. (6.4 × 7 cm)
Credit LineGift of Alfred C. Glassell, Jr.
Object number2001.1008.1,.2
Not on view

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Department
Art of the Indigenous Americas, Glassell Collection
Object Type
ProvenanceAlfred C. Glassell, Jr. Collection, Houston, since at least 1967 [Glassell Album #4, slide dated "DEC 67"];
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2001, 2001.1008.1

From the Glassell index card: One of these is in the collection of Dr. Eduard Gaffron at the Art Institute of Chicago. There is another one shown in "Kunst Geschicte de Alten Peru" Lehmen and Doering.
Published References Alan Lapiner, "Pre-Columbian Art of South America" (1976), pg. 325, fig. 717.

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