Gold Crown Yale University Art Gallery

1000–1450 C.E.

On view, 1st floor, Art of the Ancient Americas

Medium: Gold
Dimensions: 7 5/8 × 6 3/4 in. (19.4 × 17.1 cm)
Credit Line: Promised gift of Thomas Jaffe, B.A. 1971
Loan number: ILE2008.14.4
Geography: Central Andes, Peru
Culture: Chimu
Period: Late Intermediate Period
Classification: Jewelry
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Provenance

Co-owned by André Emmerich (1924–2007), New York, and Captain B. J. Linden, Czech Republic, by August 1966 [see note 1]; sold to William B. Jaffe (1904–1972), New York, January, 1967 (Emmerich inventory CA909) [see also note 1]; by descent to his son, Thomas Jaffe

Note 1: According to André Emmerich inventory card, Sotheby's, New York

Bibliography

Art for Yale: Collecting for a New Century, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2007), 195, 386, pl. 181

Julie Jones, Precolumbian Art in New York: Selections from Private Collections, exh. cat. (New York: Museum of Primitive Art, 1969), n.p., no. 140

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

Additional information

Object/Work type

crowns (headdresses)

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