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Copper-gold jewellery plate (mirror ?)

Index card: heavy, round jewellery plate made of gold (or bronze?) with a high copper content. Eyelets on the upper edge, so perhaps worn on the ear as pendant jewellery. s. Bäßler. Old Peru. Metal implements Pl. 18 Fig. 300: Here, too, the plate and the pendant are made from a single casting. "the piece shines gold-yellow on the front, on the back it is covered with green oxide in places" Bäßler considers the piece in question to be too large (10.1 cm in diameter) and too heavy for a chest ornament for a mirror.

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Object type
Copper-gold jewellery plate (mirror ?)
Dimensions
Weight: 30,11 g
Height: 6,5 cm
Depth: 0,2 cm
Width: 5,7 cm
Material/Technique
Gold, Alloy (copper)
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 31832

Provenance and sources

where
Peru
Pachacámac [Ort]
who
Julius van der Zypen
who
Wilhelm Gretzer (de.fiz.ddb.model.ddbobject.WhenType$Begin@6a4cfd6f - de.fiz.ddb.model.ddbobject.WhenType$End@433755e8) - Collectors

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