Lot 222
  • 222

Costa Rican Light Green Jade Figural Pendant, Atlantic Watershed zone, Late Period IV, ca. A.D. 1-500

Estimate
4,000 - 7,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • jade
  • Height: 3 1/2 in (8.9 cm)
distinguished by multiple zoomorphic ornaments and appendages, holding finely incised chevron staffs on the chest, wearing a headdress of a double-headed alligator,  headband with upside-down animals as ear flaps, and legs forming upside down crouching animals; drilled vertically and laterally for suspension. 

Provenance

Máximo Acosta Soto Collection
Acquired from the above by the present owner's family in 1959

Exhibited

San Diego, Fine Arts Gallery and Society of San Diego, February-March 1969

Condition

Excellent, intact.
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