COLOMBIAN GOLD PENDANT OF A FISH CIRCA AD 500-1000

Jan Mitchell, New York, acquired prior to 1969

Thence by family descent

PUBLISHED

Julie Jones, Precolumbian Art in New York: Selections from Private Collections: New York, 1969, unpaginated, cat. no. 172

Julie Jones, Heidi King, The Art of Precolumbian Gold: The Jan Mitchell Collection, New York, 1985, pp. 148-9, cat. no. 33

The Museum of Primitive Art, New York, Precolumbian Art in New York: Selections from Private Collections, September 12-November 9, 1969

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Art of Precolumbian Gold: The Jan Mitchell Collection, May 9-August 11, 1985

Pendants cast as nearly identical multiples were characteristic of ancient Colombian gold; the ornaments were strung together falling side by side on a necklace. The wide tubular suspension loop on this finely rendered aquatic figure may have made this ornament more appropriate as an individual pendant. (Jones, ed. The Art of Precolumbian Gold: The Jan Mitchell Collection, New York, 1985, p. 148).