Pre-Columbian and colonial silverwork, Peru
By: [general director and editor, Luis Felipe Llosa Ricketts] = Peru, platería precolombina y virreinal / [director y editor general, Luis Felipe Llosa Ricketts]
Edition: 1. ed.
Publisher: Unimundo
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Lima
Language: spa
Number of pages: 115
Subjects: Silverwork
Other titles: Peru, platería precolombina y virreinal
Description: A major reference on silver work in Peru with detailed photographs and silver marks. Metals had a sacred and metaphysical role for ancient Peruvians, and were also used to differentiate the nobles from the common people. Silver symbolized the night, the moon, thus fertility and women.