Funerary Mask

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Public Domain

CultureSicán (Lambayeque)
Titles
  • Funerary Mask
Date800–1375 AD
PlacePeru
MediumGold with hematite or cinnabar
DimensionsOverall: 9 1/4 × 12 1/4 × 2 1/4 in. (23.5 × 31.1 × 5.7 cm)
Credit LineGift of Alfred C. Glassell, Jr.
Object number2010.445
Not on view

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Department
Art of the Indigenous Americas, Glassell Collection
Object Type
Provenance(Previously at Bonham & Butterfields, San Francisco, sale #7546E, 6.14.2004, Lot #1069, p. 23);
(Lot #47189 in Heritage's Pre-Columbian Art Auction of The Hendershott Collection, Sept. 29, 2006);
Alfred C. Glassell, Jr. Collection, Houston;
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2010, 2010.445
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Printed bar code on verso of mount: RHC4A .000005 7546E

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