Measuring Cups (Vasos para medir)

Spanish Colonial Art
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Measuring Cups (Vasos para medir)

Bolivia, possibly Moxos or Chiquitos, circa 1750-1800
Furnishings; Serviceware
Carved tropical wood
Large to small (height × diameter): (1) 7 1/2 × 5 1/2 in. (19.1 × 14 cm); (2) 4 1/4 × 4 1/8 in. (10.8 × 10.5 cm); (3) 4 × 3 11/16 in. (10.2 × 9.4 cm); (4) 3 5/16 × 3 1/4 in. (8.4 × 8.3 cm); (5) 3 1/4 × 3 in. (8.3 × 7.6 cm); (6) 2 7/8 × 2 1/2 in. (7.3 × 6.4 cm); (7) 2 3/8 × 2 1/4 in. (6 × 5.7 cm); (8) 1 7/8 × 1 7/8 in. (4.8 × 4.8 cm); (9) 1 1/2 × 1 1/2 in. (3.8 × 3.8 cm)
Purchased with funds provided by the Bernard and Edith Lewin Collection of Mexican Art Deaccession Fund (M.2020.84.1-.9)
Latin American Art
Not currently on public view

Provenance

Susana Montiel de Colmenares, London, c....
Susana Montiel de Colmenares, London, c. 1980s; Pedro Aguiar-Branco, Portugal and France, 2001; AR-PAB gallery (Álvaro Roquette and Pedro AguiarBranco), Paris; Eguiguren Arte de Hispanoamérica (Javier Eguiguren), 2019; LACMA, 2019.
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The Jesuits first arrived in Moxos and Chiquitos (in present-day Bolivia) in the late 1600s and, by the eighteenth century, had established a chain of largely self-sustaining missions.

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The Jesuits first arrived in Moxos and Chiquitos (in present-day Bolivia) in the late 1600s and, by the eighteenth century, had established a chain of largely self-sustaining missions. In these settlements (reducciones), Native artists produced a range of exquisitely carved objects, such as this set of measuring cups. Their creations drew simultaneously on local and foreign decorative motifs and employed a variety of tropical woods.


From exhibition Archive of the World, 2022 (for more information see the catalogue entry by Ilona Katzew in the accompanying publication, cat. no. 81, pp. 316–19)
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Bibliography

  • Katzew, Ilona, ed. Archive of the World: Art and Imagination in Spanish America, 1500–1800: Highlights from LACMA’s Collection. Exh. Cat. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; New York: DelMonico Books/D.A.P., 2022.

Exhibition history

  • Archive of the World: Art and Imagination in Spanish America, 1500–1800 Los Angeles, CA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, June 12, 2022 - October 30, 2022
  • Archive of the World: Art and Imagination in Spanish America, 1500–1800 Nashville, TN, Frist Art Museum, October 20, 2023 - January 28, 2024