Product of the art market? The representation of silver corncobs at the Ethnologisches Museum in Berlin

In the 1960s two similar silver corncobs attributed to the Chimú-Inca period were sold by New York based art dealers to the Museum für Völkerkunde in Berlin, now the Ethnologisches Museum, and to the Denver Art Museum. The composition of the Berlin piece shows the use of different alloys, suggesting...

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Main Authors: Manuela Fischer, Stefan Röhrs, Elena Gómez-Sánchez, Regine-Ricarda Pausewein, Hermann Born, Ina Reiche, Kai Engelhardt
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Institut Français d'Études Andines 2017-03-01
Series:Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Études Andines
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/bifea/8301