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THBHuge Ancient Costa Rican Jade Avian Axe God Pendant
Lot 93
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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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Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, Guanacaste-Nicoya, ca. 250 to 800 CE. Finely carved and string cut from seafoam and forest green omphacite jade, an axe god celt presenting an avian visage with another bird atop his head - perhaps representing a ruler-shaman undergoing transformation. In the Pre-Columbian world, birds were thought to be sky animals that mediated between humankind and deities of the celestial world. In addition to this symbolic imagery, the attention to detail is impressive. The visage is comprised of partially drilled round eyes and a prominent crested beak. His arms or wings are delineated below and to the sides of the body. The bird atop his head is meticulously rendered with a long beaked visage, crest feathers, and wings. A superb example of ancient Costa Rican jadework and drilled for suspension at the sides of the neck. Size: 9.75" L x 1.1" W x 0.7" H (24.8 cm x 2.8 cm x 1.8 cm)
The value of jade in the Pre-Columbian world lay in its symbolic power; scholars believe its color was associated with water and vegetation. Costa Rica, along with Mesoamerica, is one of the two regions where jade was extensively carved in the Pre-Columbian world. The earliest example of worked jade, a pendant excavated from a burial site on the Nicoya Peninsula, dated to the mid-first millennium BCE. It appears that jade continued to be carved into personal ornaments, usually depicting anthropomorphic deities or animals such as birds, monkeys, or frogs, until approximately 700 CE when gold became the favored material to fashion such ornaments.
Provenance: private Dallas, Texas, USA collection, originally acquired in Costa Rica from 1997 - 1998; ex-private Costa Rican collection
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#185704Intact and excellent with impressively preserved detail and smoothly polished surfaces. Light earthen deposits in recessed areas.Condition
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