Crown

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Culture Vicús

Title Crown

Date 1–200

Medium Copper and gold plate

Dimensions Object: 5 1/4 × 10 1/2 × 5 in. (13.3 × 26.7 × 12.7 cm)
Overall (includes mount): 7 1/4 × 10 1/2 × 5 in. (18.4 × 26.7 × 12.7 cm)

Credit Line Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University

Accession Number 80.74.1

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About this Work

One of many historic cultures in Peru the Vicús culture dates to 100 BCE to 400 CE. Like this crown, a large amount of adornment created by Vicús artists used electroplating, a technique where a thin layer of gold was used to cover the copper surface of an object. This process creates an object which would have, in its original condition, appeared to be solid gold while only covered with gold layers millimeters thick.

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"Crown | Collections Online." Collections Online. Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, 2024. https://artmuseum.indiana.edu/collections-online/browse/object.php?number=80.74.1