Unidentified artists
Altar Frontal Plaque with Angel (Placa de frontal de altar con ángel )17th century

Not on view

Silver or silver-toned metal relief panel with a winged cherub face at center, surrounded by symmetrical acanthus scrollwork and a leaf-decorated border, worked in repoussé

Artist or Maker: Unidentified artists
Title: Altar Frontal Plaque with Angel (Placa de frontal de altar con ángel )
Place Made: Viceroyalty of Peru, possibly Puno or Cuzco
Date Made: 17th century
Medium: Repoussé and chased silver
Dimensions: 11 1/8 × 10 in. (28.3 × 25.4 cm)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by the Bernard and Edith Lewin Collection of Mexican Art Deaccession Fund
Accession Number: M.2006.196
Classification: Sculpture
Collecting Area: Latin American Art
Curatorial Notes: Elaborately decorated silver plaques adorned church altars across the viceroyalty of Peru and were shipped around the world, including to Jerusalem. These fragments were originally nailed to a wooden armature as part of a larger ensemble. This plaque represents the head of an angel framed by three pairs of wings—likely a seraph.

From exhibition Archive of the World, 2022 (for more information see the catalogue entry by Rachel Kaplan in the accompanying publication, cat. no. 85, pp. 331–34)
Provenance: Carl Dreyer Spohr (1895–1975), Puno, Peru, after 1924; by inheritance to Augusto Dreyer Costa (b. 1949), Peru and Canada, c. 1975; Nobuko Kajitani, New York, late 1980s; David Bernstein Fine Arts, New York, 2005; LACMA, 2006.
Selected 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.
Selected Exhibition History: Archive of the World: Art and Imagination in Spanish America, 1500–1800. June 12, 2022 - October 30, 2022
Archive of the World: Art and Imagination in Spanish America, 1500–1800. June 12, 2022 - October 30, 2022
Archive of the World: Art and Imagination in Spanish America, 1500–1800. October 20, 2023 - January 28, 2024
Archive of the World: Art and Imagination in Spanish America, 1500–1800. October 20, 2023 - January 28, 2024
Archive of the World: Art and Imagination in Spanish America, 1500–1800. June 22, 2024 - September 08, 2024
Archive of the World: Art and Imagination in Spanish America, 1500–1800. June 22, 2024 - September 08, 2024

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