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THBCocle Gold Composite Creature Pendant - 11 g
Lot 84b
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Artemis Gallery
686 S Taylor Ave, Ste 106
Louisville, CO 80027
United States
Selling antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art online since 1993, Artemis Gallery specializes in Classical Antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanographic art. Our extensive inventory includes pottery, stone, metal, wood, glass and textil...Read more
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By Artemis Gallery
Apr 25, 2019
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2019-04-25 10:00:00
2019-04-25 10:00:00
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Bidsquare : Pre-Columbian | Tribal | Ethnographic
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Featuring ancient and ethnographic art from around the world, including Pre-Columbian, Native American, African / Tribal, Ethnographic, Spanish Colonial, Fossils, Fine Art, much more. Artemis Gallery info@artemisgallery.com
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- Lot Description
Pre-Columbian, Panama, Cocle, ca. 700 to 1100 CE. A wonderful pendant comprised of high quality gold (90% or equivalent to 20K+) and depicting an endearing amphibian creature with a frog-like face presenting bulging eyes and a wide mouth as well as a long, lizard-like body. Two suspension loops also serve as the animals front feet; the creature also has hind legs and a tail. According to scholar Dorie Reents-Budet, in Panama and Columbia, gold adornments such as this lizard effigy would have been a totemic icon for a familial unity or community group, intimating the honorable members special powers. (Exploring Art of the Ancient Americas (2012). Size: 1.75" L (4.4 cm); weight: 11 grams; gold quality: 90%, equivalent to 20K+
Pre-Columbian art is well-known for its impressive goldworks. Gold became the preferred material for creating fashionable ornaments sometime after 500 CE replacing jadeite and other green stones from which artists had made impressive jewelry for centuries. Indeed the ancient cultures of the New World created countless gold ornaments and ceremonial objects. Unfortunately, the Spanish conquistadors melted nearly all of these to convert them to gold bars and coins for Spain. Due to this, surviving genuine pre-Columbian gold is rare and highly coveted by collectors.
Provenance: private Los Angeles, California USA Collection; acquired at Heritage Auctions, Friday May 10, 2013, Auction #5135, Lot 54286
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#145431Minor casting flaw in mouth area. Otherwise excellent.Condition
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