Provenance Information

Collection of Alan Lapiner (d. 1976); Laurence C. Witten II, until 1995, and then to the Cora Williams Witten Unitrust from 1995 through 1996; [Sotheby’s, New York, November 26, 1996, lot 38]; Blake Perlingieri, WA, until 2000 [Spencer Throckmorton, New York]; Collection of Lucille and Martin E. Kantor (d. 2013), New York, 2000-2018. Promised Gift from Lucille and Martin E. Kantor to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000; Gift from Lucille Kantor to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018.

Exhibition Information

On loan to and on display at, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in the exhibition Rain of the Moon: Silver in Ancient Peru, November 3, 2000 – April 22, 2001.

Publication Information

Sotheby's. Precolumbian Art. New York, November 25, 1996, no. 38.

King, Heidi, Luis Jaime Castillo Butters, and Paloma Carcedo de Mufarech. Rain of the Moon: Silver in Ancient Peru. New York, New Haven and London: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000, no. 57.

Section of the AAMD Guidelines relied upon for the exception to 1970

Gift or bequest expected or on loan prior to 2008

Explain why the object fits the exception set forth above

According to the 1996 Sotheby’s catalogue, the Ear Ornaments come from the collection of Alan Lapiner, a scholar of ancient Peruvian art active in the 1960’s and early 1970’s. The Ear Ornaments were promised as a gift to the Museum by Lucille and Martin E. Kantor in 2000.