Crescent ornament
Crescent ornament
Crescent ornament
Crescent ornament

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Art of the Ancient Americas

Crescent ornament,

500–700 CE

Mochica
Early Intermediate Period
2021-43

Information

Title
Crescent ornament
Dates

500–700 CE

Medium
(possibly gilded) copper alloy
Dimensions
h. 7 cm, w. 8.2 cm (2 3/4 × 3 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Gillett G. Griffin Art of the Ancient Americas Fund
Object Number
2021-43
Place Made

South America, Peru, Piura, Loma Negra, North Coast

Culture
Mochica
Period
Early Intermediate period, Early Intermediate period
Type
ornament, metalwork
Materials
copper
Subject
battles, dogs, deities, figures (representations)

After December 6, 1969 and before 1976, sold by André Emmerich Gallery/Alan C. Lapiner, New York, to Robert Sonin (1926-2011), New York [1]; 2011, sold to private collection, New York; 2020, sold to the Princeton University Art Museum.

Notes:
[1] The work was exhibited and published in André Emmerich, Sun Gods and Saints: Art of Pre-Columbian and Colonial Peru (New York: André Emmerich Gallery, New York), fig. 40. It was subsequently published as collection of Robert Sonin in Alan C. Lapiner, Pre-Columbian Art of South America (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1976), fig. 365.

Crescent depicting supernatural captive-taking

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