About the Artwork
Beaker
between 900 and 1400
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Precolumbian
Chimu
Hammered and embossed gold
Overall: 6 1/4 inches × 4 1/2 inches (15.9 × 11.4 cm)
Metalwork
Indigenous Americas
Founders Society Purchase, Eleanor & Edsel Ford Exhibition and Acquisition Fund
F1985.14
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Provenance
1985-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Bulletin of the DIA 62, no. 3 (1986): 15.
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Chimu, Precolumbian, Beaker, between 900 and 1400, hammered and embossed gold. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Eleanor & Edsel Ford Exhibition and Acquisition Fund, F1985.14.
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