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THBImportant Chavin Gold Crown w/ Lapis Ear Spools
Lot 26
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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
Jul 13, 2021
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2021-07-13 12:00:00
2021-07-13 12:00:00
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Bidsquare : Fauna, Flora, Stones & Bones
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Join us for a very special summer auction featuring fabulous fossils, rocks, and minerals, plus art depicting flora and fauna from antiquity to present day. This is one you won't want to miss! Artemis Gallery info@artemisgallery.com
Join us for a very special summer auction featuring fabulous fossils, rocks, and minerals, plus art depicting flora and fauna from antiquity to present day. This is one you won't want to miss! Artemis Gallery info@artemisgallery.com
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- Lot Description
Pre-Columbian, northern Peru, Chavin culture, ca. 1200 to 500 BCE. In a word - breathtaking! Important and rare gold and lapis headdress and earspools. Starting at the top, golden feather with flared top section and insertion tang above a ring of 7 gold circular elements, each with recessed outer ring set with smaller flat gold ring and then another smaller gold dangler. Earspools comprised of gold spools with flared end-piece in which a large lapis (more accurately sodalite, one of the primary elements of lapis) in deep blue/purple. Exquisitely mounted and the highlight of any collection. Size of plume: 7.5" H (19 cm); entire display: 21.75" H (55.2 cm) on included custom stand.
The gold of each element has been XRF'd and shows a gold content ranging between a high of 91.5% to a low of 59%. Ancient Chavin gold was worked from gold nuggets found in high elevation rivers and hand hammered to create such masterworks. It is not unusual to find varied mixes of gold, silver and copper in such works.
Provenance: private Hawaii, USA collection; ex-private Hans Juergen Westermann collection, Germany, collected from 1950s to 1960s
All items legal to buy/sell under U.S. Statute covering cultural patrimony Code 2600, CHAPTER 14, and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back.
A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany all winning bids.
PLEASE NOTE: Due to recent increases of shipments being seized by Australian & German customs (even for items with pre-UNESCO provenance), we will no longer ship most antiquities and ancient Chinese art to Australia & Germany. For categories of items that are acceptable to ship to Australia, please contact us directly or work with your local customs brokerage firm.
#159626Minor creases and tears on a couple elements, else intact and very excellent.Condition
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