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THBImportant Costa Rican Jade Pendant - ex Woram
Lot 145c
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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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Feb 21, 2019
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2019-02-21 10:00:00
2019-02-21 10:00:00
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An important one-day auction featuring museum-worthy examples of Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Etruscan, Near Eastern, Far East / Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal, Oceanic, Native American, Spanish Colonial, Russian, Fossils, Ancient Jewelry, Fine Art, so much more! Artemis Gallery info@artemisgallery.com
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- Lot Description
Pre-Columbian, Central America, Costa Rica, ca. 250 to 800 CE. An exceptional Costa Rican jade pendant comprised of jadeite boasting beautiful blue-green hues with white inclusions, expertly carved and string cut with an intriguing representation of an anthropomorphic figure standing with clasped hands over the chest/abdomen, delineated feet, and a tranquil visage featuring wide-set coffee bean shaped eyes, a triangular nose, and slightly-parted, downturned lips - all topped by a 'twisted or plaited' band and a magnificent perched bird with incised diagonal striations adorning the wings to suggest the wing's plumage. Biconically drilled perforations serve as eyes as well as a means of suspension. Size: 3.375" H (8.6 cm)
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. Jade continued to be carved into personal ornaments, usually depicting anthropomorphic figures or animals such as birds, monkeys, or frogs, but more rarely depicting both an anthropomorphic and a zoomorphic figure like this example. Jade was coveted as a luxury material in Costa Rica until approximately 700 CE when gold became the favored material to fashion such ornaments.
Provenance: ex-private West Palm Beach, Florida, USA collection; ex-Woram collection, acquired in the 1950s to 1960s - major collectors of Pre-Columbian jade artifacts from Christie's, Sotheby's, and all the major auction houses
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#143695Intact and excellent. Jade presents nice white inclusions/veining. Old inventory label on the verso.Condition
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