Pair of Beakers Depicting Birds in a Cornfield

A.D. 1100/1438

Inca
Ica Valley, south coast, Peru

Status: On View, Gallery 136
Department: Arts of the Americas

Culture: Inca
Title: Pair of Beakers Depicting Birds in a Cornfield
Place: Ica Valley (Object made in)
Date: 1100–1438
Medium: Gold
Dimensions: Each: 7 × 7.3 cm (2 3/4 × 2 7/8 in.)
Credit Line: Kate S. Buckingham Endowment
Reference Number: 1955.2589 a-b
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Walter Lehmann and Dr. Heinrich Doering, Kunstgeschichte des Alten Peru (Verlag Ernst Wasmuth A.G., 1924), pl. 105 (ill.).
Walter Lehmann and Heinrich Doering, Ph.D., The Art of Old Peru (Ernst Wasmuth Ltd., 1924), pl. 105 (ill.).
Heinrich U. Doering, Old Peruvian Art (E. Weyhe, 1936), pl. 41 (ill.).
Allen Wardwell, The Gold of Ancient America, exh. cat. (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Art Institute of Chicago; and Virginia Museum with New York Graphic Society, 1968), pp. 40-41, fig. 27 (ill.)
Walter Lehmann and Heinrich Doering, The Art of Old Peru, reissued (Hacker Art Books, 1975), pl. 105 (ill.).
Richard Townsend with Elizabeth Pope. 2016. Indian Art of the Americas at the Art Institute of Chicago. Art Institute of Chicago and Yale University Press, p. 367, cat. 344 (ill.).

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Gold of Ancient America, Dec. 5, 1968–Jan. 12, 1969, cat. no. 27; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 1–Mar. 9, 1969, and Virginia Museum, Mar. 24–Apr. 20, 1969.
Art Institute of Chicago, Wunderkammer, September 2008–2009, no cat. [Medieval to Modern Dept.]

Eduard Gaffron (1861–1931), Lima, Peru, from 1892 to 1912, then Berlin, from 1912 [History of the Department report (Joanne Behrens, 1985) and correspondence in curatorial file]; by descent to his children Mercedes Gaffron, Berlin then Durham, SC, and Hans Gaffron (1902–1979), Berlin then Chicago [correspondence and documentation of the Gaffron Collection in curatorial file]; sold to the Art Institute, 1955.

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